Their head is protected by a linen cloth, to which a thick rope wound twice round the head gives a very good effect.

A few have a striped jacket over their shirt, and the rich men or chiefs frequently wear turbans.
Our road now continues to wind upwards, through ravines between rocks and mountains, and over heaps of stones.

Here and there single olive-trees are seen sprouting from the rocky clefts.

Ugly as this tree is, it still forms a cheerful feature in the desert places where it grows.

Now and then we climbed hills whence we had a distant view of the sea.