They belonged to the white race, and, like other members of the white race, were tall in stature and impatient of the damp heat of the plains.

Their beard and eye-brows are painted red, their hair a light red-brown, while their eyes are blue.

The skin is a sunburnt white, the nose straight and regular, the forehead high, and the lips thin.

They wore whiskers and a pointed beard, and dressed in long robes furnished with a sort of cape.

Their physical characteristics are those of the Libyan neighbours of the Egyptians on the west, the forefathers of the fair-skinned and blue-eyed Kabyles or Berbers who inhabit the mountains of northern Africa to-day.