TRAVELS IN THE SAHARA. 
men. Their hair is bristled, and their nails, which 
they often use in battle, as long as claws ; large 
hanging ears, and a long beard, give them a stern 
ferocious air. The Ouadelhn, in particular, are 
fierce, arrogant, and warlike, but soon dispirited 
by obstinate resistance, especially when they have 
not a decided superiority in numbers. In their 
hordes they lodge by families, in tents which are 
covered with a thick cloth of camels' hair, which 
the women spin and weave upon a loom so small, 
that they work sitting on the ground. The fur- 
niture of their tents consists of two large sacks of 
leather, in which they keep old clothes and pieces 
of old iron, three or four goats' skins for holding 
milk and water, two large stones for grinding their 
barley, a smaller one for driving the pins of their 
tents, an ozier matting, which serves for a bed, a 
thick carpet for a covering, a small kettle, and 
some wooden dishes, with pack-saddles for their 
camels. The person who, besides these articles, 
possesses a few horses, camels, sheep, and goats, 
is reckoned wealthy, as there are many Arabs who 
only possess sheep and goats. Except sore eyes 
and the cholic, they are subject to few endemic 
diseases. The first disorder is caused by the re- 
flection of light from the burning sands of the de- 
sert ; the other proceeds from the verdigrise which 
contaminates ail their victuals. Their kettles are 
not tinned, and never washed, so that they are 
