COMMUNICATIONS. 
lence, the heat is often fuch as to threaten inllant fuffocation; 
but if it happens to change, as, for a few days, it fometimes does, 
to the W. or N. W. a reviving freflinefs immediately fucceeds. 
The drefs of the inhabitants of Fezzan is fimilar to that of the 
Moors of Barbary. The immediate covering of the body con- 
fifts of a pair of large trowfers, of Hnen or cloth, which defcends 
to the fmall of the leg, and of a fliirt, which is wide in the fleeves, 
but loofe at the breaft, and the Ikirts of which hang over and 
conceal the upper part of the trowfers. Next to the iliirt is worn, 
a kind of waiftcoat, which in iliape refembles the fliirt, except 
that it has no fleeves, and that it reaches no lower than the waift ; 
and to the waiftcoat is fuperadded a jacket, with tight fleeves 
which extend to the wrift, but which are left unbuttoned and 
open from the wrift almoft to the elbow. Thus far their drefs 
may be faid to be fnnilar to that of a Britifli feaman, its colour 
excepted, and except too, that the fliirt is not open at the breaft, 
that the waiftcoat is not fliftened with buttons, but is put on 
like the fliirt, and that the bottom of the fliirt hangs down on 
the outflde of the trowfers. 
Over the jacket is worn a loofe robe, which reaches below the 
knee, and the fleeves of which, though wider than thofe of the 
N 2 jacket, 
