RECENT NARRATIVES. 
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feet are blackened with henna. In short, the full 
dress of a Moorish lady employs several hours, 
and forms then so complete a disguise, that her 
nearest relations cannot recognize her. On great 
occasions, the display of jewels, and of gold and 
silver ornaments, is very profuse. A bride is des- 
cribed to have received company, so loaded with 
them, that if she had attempted to rise, she could 
not have supported their weight. 
The same narrative gives some striking parti- 
culars of the ravages committed by the plague at 
Tripoli. At first, only an obscure rumour of its 
existence began to be circulated, and the Euro- 
pean residents were earnestly entreated by the 
Basha not to augment the alarm by shutting their 
houses. The deaths, however, multiplying, they 
determined upon that step. It consisted in the 
entire exclusion of the natives, unless at one par- 
ticular time of the day, when a person, hired for 
the purpose, came in, placed provisions in the 
lobby, with a note of the value, and immediately 
departed. The plague now raged more and more, 
and the funerals became daily more numerous. 
At first they were conducted with order, and with 
all the splendour which the relatives were able to 
afford ; but as the malady became universal, all 
distinction ceased ; the Cologli, a species of mili- 
tia, went round once a day for the dead, fastened 
their bodies to the horses, and carried them to a 
