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cloth, a woollen waistcoat, or a small cloth jacket, and a 
red pointed cap; most of them roll round this cap some 
cotton or white muslin into a turban. The hhaik en* 
velops them completely, and even covers the head like 
a hood. Sometimes they wear over this hhaik a white 
wrapper or bournous. Their slippers are yellow. Some, 
instead of the jacket, have a caftan or long robe button- 
ed before from top to bottom, with very wide sleeves, 
but not so long as the Turkish caftan. All of them use 
a woollen or silken sash. 
The women are always so completely wrapped up, 
that it is difficult to see even one of their eyes under the 
deep fold of their hhaik. They wear on their feet enor- 
mous large red slippers, but like the men, without 
stockings. When they carry a child or a burthen, it is 
always on their backs, so that their hands are never to be 
seen. 
The dress of the children consists only in a simple 
tunick with a sash. 
The bournous over the hhaik is the ceremonial dress 
of the talbes or learned men, the imaums or chiefs of 
their mosquesf, and their fakihs or doctors of law* 
CHAPTER III. 
Audiences of the governor. — Those of the kadi.— Food.—- Marriages.— Sepul- 
chers. — Public bath. 
Th e kaid or governor gives his audiences every 
day to the public, and dispenses justice almost always 
by verbal judgments. Sometimes the two parties ap* 
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