PRODUCTS. 255 find work ; the fitting up of the forge costs them but little trouble, for a large stone is soon found on which they place a piece of iron, this serves them then as an anvil ; close to this essential instrument, they construct a small furnace, to which a leather sack, answering the purpose of bellows, is attached. They make no heavy objects, for, beyond spear-heads, hashiash, (an agricultural implement,) double-edged, and arrow-pointed knives of various sizes, they cannot produce any other article. Their work is not well rewarded ; for the minerals, such as the iron or charcoal cost them scarcely anything, and thus they can only bring their manual labour into calculation.

Their tools are not particularly complicated, and consist merely of a few hammers and of a pair of pincers.

The potters manufacture one single kind of vessel {Bursha) in form of a bomb, but with rather a wider neck, and this is used as a receptacle for water, for boiling, roasting, and for keeping merissa in ; they make, further, a round and rather deepened plate {Doga) for baking bread, and pipe-heads more of a German shape than like the Turkish bowls ; all these articles are, however, perfectly plain without the slightest attempt even at ornament.

There are many tanners in the province who tan the leather by a most simple process, in which they employ the Garat,* the pod of a tree. They also manufacture the water-holders, the larger of which, are termed Rai, the smaller Ckir'beh ;f Of the Acacia, according to Burckhardt's Travels in Nubia, p. 264 Tr, t Girbe Tr.