WINDHUS. 
The Basha is quite absolute in the province, and 
can take from any one houses, lands, horses, or 
whatever he pleases ; so that every one conceals 
any portion of wealth which by trade or industry 
he may have acquired. 
The females, as in all Mahometan states, are 
most rigidly confined. Many Moors, when their 
wives were at the greatest extremity, rather suf- 
fered them to die than send for a Christian physi- 
cian ; even those who did so, delayed till they 
were at the point of death, when no remedies 
could avail. The ladies, however, when they 
met Europeans in the fields, or saw them from 
the tops of the houses, very readily took the op- 
portunity of favouring them with a view of their 
persons. They were in general enormously fat, 
but had very fine eyes, and many of them beau- 
tiful skins. The cheeks were painted with co- 
chineal, which at first was yellow, but on being 
rubbed, soon became red ; with this they made 
a great round spot on each cheek. Their eye- 
brows and eyelids v/ere painted black, while black 
patches and lines were drawn in various directions 
over the face and breast. 
In eating, the Moors make use neither of tables 
nor chairs. The dishes are placed on a piece of 
greasy leather, round which they sit cross-legged 
on the ground. Their dishes are made of pewter 
or earthen ware, narrow below, and wide at top, 
