HABITS AND CUSTOMS. 49 forget, as they meet with treatment in captivity they could not have experienced under the paternal roof ; they subsequently adopt the customs and habits of the people with whom they are forced to live, and frequently laugh at the simple customs of their own country.

In the houses of the married there is a small elevation, of about one foot and a half in height, in which an earthem pot is immured up to its embouchure : this is called " tirankul," and is for the purpose of fumigating the person. Wood cut into thin shavings, named " klet " and " telch," is placed in the pot, and ignited, whereupon the person performs the fumigation. This smoke is very tonic in its operation, and so astringent that it corrugates the skin. The shirts are also fumigated with sandal-wood over this pot.

The influential and more opulent inhabitants of the village, e. g. the sheikhs or the djelabis, possess, in addition to the houses we have already described, a hut built in a quadrangular form and called "rakuba:" they are more spacious than the common dwellings, and are furnished with two entrances to admit of a freer circulation of air, but are not tenantable during the rainy season on account of the extreme lightness with which they are constructed.

This description of public building serves the purpose of a place of abode for travellei*s, and is certainly preferable to the dark and hot tukkoli, which are built rather for the rainy season than for the dry and E