Four ordinary saddles 160
Two common saddles for the servants 20
One master's djebira of tiger-skin 17
Four ordinary djebira 28
One pair of master's temag, or boots of morocco leather 12
Four pair of ordinary temag 24 douros.
One pair of master's spurs, mounted in silver and ornamented with coral 6
Four pair of ordinary shabirs, or spurs 4
Five medol, or straw hats adorned with ostrich feathers 5
Total 376 douros.
Horses, cattle, negroes, etc., consist of:
A stallion for the chief of the tent 100 douros.
Four blood mares for his sons 320
Two servants' mares 60
Six asses 18
Two slougui, or greyhounds [not purchasable] »
Four negroes 240
Four negresses 200
Twenty ghelem each ghelem a flock of 400 sheep 8,000
Four ibeul, or droves of 100 camels each: of these 400 animals, 130 are she-camels which command a higher price than the males, but I value them all round at 30 douros a head 12,000
Ten he- or she-goats, the only use of which is to make the sheep keep moving on a march 50
Two tame gazelles, a young antelope, and an ostrich [these are never for sale] »
Total 20,988 douros.
The chief of a tent of this importance ought besides to possess, in depôt, in three or four kuesours, or small towns:
Twelve hundred zedja, or fleeces, worth each half a boudjou 200 douros.
Thirty white burnouses, at 3 douros each 90
Thirty haïks at 2 douros 60
Forty habaya, or woollen shirts at 2 douros 80
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