218 STREETS — TOILETTE TREE OF DEATH. 
of the Sultan is a fort of mud, with walls of some 
height ; it overlooks all the other buildings. The 
Shereef Kebir has also a mud house, with walls of 
some height. There are two principal streets, run- 
ning from the south to the north ; one terminating 
at the castle of the Governor, and the other in the 
market. These are of some width, there being- 
space for a dozen camels to pass abreast. There 
are, besides, many little squares before the houses 
of the grandees, where the people lounge : the 
streets are always full of idle people. 
Instead of suak 9 the women used here the calix 
of a flower, called furai, for staining their teeth 
with a deep amber colour. It is the fashion for 
ladies to dress their hair in solid knots, two of which 
fall over the temples, one over the ear, and the 
other at the back of the head. Some of the women 
have hair tolerably long. I noticed to-day the 
shonshonah of Daura. It consists of two thick cuts, 
forming an angle at the corner of the mouth, with a 
few small ones on the temples. 
I went to see another Tree of Death, where his 
highness slaughters criminals in the same way as 
mentioned under the other tree. The space beneath 
the boughs is also swept clean. This tree is more 
spreading, and of another sort ; it is crowned with 
the filthy vultures, which roost day and night in 
considerable numbers on its upper branches. Yusuf 
tells me the history of these trees, when the inhabi- 
tants were pagans. It was under them that the 
