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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
tion of these wandering tribes over all the neighbouring 
peoples, whom they rob and pillage without mercy. 
The Tuarick costume is the same as that of the Arabs, 
with the exception of the head-dress. Day and night 
they wear a cotton band which covers the eyes and 
comes down over the nose, so that they are obliged to 
raise the head in order to see. The same band goes 
AN ARAB FAMILY. 
once or twice round the head and hides the mouth, 
coming down below the chin, so that the tip of the nose 
is all that is visible. 
The Tuaricks are perfect riders, and mounted on first- 
rate horses or on fleet camels ; each man is armed with 
a spear, a shield, and a dagger. They are the pirates 
of the desert, and innumerable are the caravans they 
have robbed, or blackmailed. 
Four days after Caillie’s arrival at Timbuctoo, he 
