They, and the boys also, wore earrings.
They made sieves of horse-hair or of leather, iron nails, and similar small ironware, or mended kettles.

They appear to be very poor, and the men go almost naked, unless the cold compels them to put on warmer clothing.

The little boys ran about naked.

Although both Christians and Mahometans declared that they buried their dead in remote hill corners, or burned them, they denied it, and declared they were good Mahometans, and as such buried their dead in Mahometan cemeteries." (This corresponds to their custom in Great Britain in the past generation, and the earnestness which they display at present to secure regular burial like Christians.) "But as their instruction is even more neglected than that of the Bedouins, their religious information is so limited that one may say of them, they have either no religion at all, or the simplest of all.

As to wine, they are less strict than most Mahometans.