204 CUSTOMS OF THE ARABS, AND camels in the adjacent country : they live in the true Patriarchal style, and seek the means of supplying all their wants within themselves. To effect this purpose, they barter a few of their camels for wool, and thus supply themselveswith that article for clothing, which is made in every (Jceyma) Arab tent, by the women, at their own respective looms j each female being the manufacturer for her own family. The cloth is wove in pieces of seven cubits long and about two and a half broad, of the natiual colour of the wool : these pieces of cloth are afterwards converted into cloaks, mantles, and tunics. Those who choose to indulge in the luxury of dress, by wearing linen, or turbans, send a few goat- skins, collected from the goats that have served them occasionally for food, to Mogodor, or Marocco, or barter them with some Jews for linen or shoes, and thus supply all their wants ; so that their resources considerably exceed their wants, for some of them have several thousand camels which cost them nothing.

These animals browse on the bushes in the environs of their habitations, and are continually increasing and multiplying. They never kill any animal for food until full grown : this custom, from which the Arab never departs, is manifestly calculated to increase property, which, being invested in camels, is transportable, without trouble or expense, wherever they choose.

The Arabs are gay and cheerful ; the brow of care is rarely seen among them. The more chil-