AND ANECDOTES. 313 Customs of the Shellulis of the Southern Atlas, viz* of Idaultit (in Lower Suse.)

The mountains of Idaultit are inhabited by a courageous and powerful people, strict to their honour and word, unlike their neighbours of Elala. They make verbal contracts between themselves, and never go to law, or record their contracts or agreements, trusting implicitly to each other's faith and honour. If a man goes to this country to claim a debt due, he cannot receive it while there, but must first leave the country, and trust to the integrity of the Idaultitee, who will surely pay when convenient, but cannot bear compulsion or restraint. They do not acknowledge any sultan, but have a divan of their own, called El)ma,who settle all disputes between man and man. These people cultivate the plains, when there is no khalif in Suse ; but when there is, they retire to the fastnesses in their mountains, and defy the arm of power ; satisfying themselves with the produce of the mountains.

Connubial Customs.

The (shereef) Prince Muley Bryhhn, son of the present Emperor Soliman, was married to the daughter of the bashaw Abdrahaman ben Nassar, who was powerful and rebellious, and prevented the Emperor for some time from proceeding to the south. This couple was married in 1803. The bashaw died the same year ; and in 1805