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jacket, are made in the fame form, and, like them, are left open 
at the wrift. 
A girdle of crimfon £lk binds the robe to the waift ; and a 
long cloth (called a barakan or alhaique) of the fliape of a High* 
lander's plaid, and worn in the fame way, is thrown over the 
whole. The legs, as far as the calves, to which the trowfers 
defcend, are covered with a kind of fhort ftockings, which are 
made of leather, and are laced like the half boot of an Englifh- 
man. The feet are accommodated with flippers ; and the head is 
protected by a red woollen cap, which is incircled by the folds 
of a iilk or muflin turban. 
Ample as this cloathing may appear, the further provifion of a 
long cloak with a large hood is often confidered as requifite. It 
is called a burnoofe, and in fine weather is ufually carried on the 
Hioulder. 
Such, when complete, is the drefs of the inhabitants of Fezzan. 
But in the Summer months the common people have no other 
covering than the drawers, which decency requires ; and the 
caps, which proted their heads from the immediate adion of the 
fun, for in other refpeds their bodies are compleatly naked- 
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