The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-30 00:00:00

ARAIIiAN MANNERS. -

nu following Account is given by Ros TER ES,
one of the French Scavants, in a Letter dated
from Suez, the iid) of November, of the. Ma-
nner in :which the Arabs march and encamp, and
of their customs and mode of living in the
Desert.

" That which surprized us most on our join-
ing a Caravan of Mount Sinai. Arabs, was the
order with which the Arabs were encamped,
which is not usual with the Turkish Caravans.
Every tribe and every sedion is encamped sepa.
rately. Each Camp is divided into small patties
of seven or eight. Arabs, round a fire, preparing
in common, the provisions which will he ne-:
ccssary during the march of the next day.—
These preparations 'occupy a part of the evening,
they are principally employed in making bread.
They mix their flour in a s►nall wooden trough, and
make paste without any leaven, with which they
make most excellent cakes. In order to dress them,
they make a.hole in the ground, and after having
heated it, they put the cakes in, and then cover
up the hole with camels' dung. They don't use,
copper plates, as the other Arab Tribe's do.—
With this bread they eat a few hand-fulls of
beans, which are taken out of the prov Lions
belonging to the camels, and which• they boil in
order to soften. This is their only nourishment'
during their Journey. They take coffee regular-
ly twice a_day, and the necessary utensils for
preparing it, form a considerable part of their
baggage.

‘‘ These Arabs appear but little attached to
the Mahometan Religion ; many 'of them know
nothing more of the Koran than the name of
Mahoinet. Perhaps when we know them bet-
ter, we shall discover more information among
them. They are almost all cloathed and armed
in the same manner ; their principal covering
is a ling large robe, open before, and without
any sleeves, there are only two holes through
which they pass their arms.—This garment is
of coarse . wool, and. at the top it is striped
black and white. The children have no other
covering, but the -men wear underneath it a
kind of shirt of. white wool, and about the waist
they wear a leathern belt.—Their boots are made
of Buffalo'S skin, very clumsily, but 'they are
sufficient to , secure their feet from the flints pf
which the road is full. Every one of them,
without exception, is armed with a two-edged
dagger, very crooked, and some of them are
very richly mounted, but the quality of the
blades are nearly all alike. Those who have
the best arms arc those who defend the cara-
vans, and they carry a match.lock.

" 'they seemed very contented at our travel-
ling with them over the Mountains.-Citizen
COUTELLE and I visited their Rneainpments,
and they sheaved us the greatest kindness ; they
gave us coffee, and would force us to eat some
bread dressed in camels' dung. They seem in
general very much contented- with' the treatment
they experience from the French,- and with the
protraion which is fiven to-their trade. The
Sheiks of the different tribes praised the mag-
nificence of the Commander in ,Chief, who had
made them presents of very fine Pelices the
evening of their departure. We are in as much
security among them as among the French.--In
seven days we shall reach Tor, Which is where
we shall rest one or two days, before we set
out for Mount Sinai. We arc determined, if it
is possible, to advance to the Gullsh of Acabts ;
if we succeed, we shall be able to obtain pretty
authentic information of the whole Peninsula be.
twoen the two Gulphs, which terminate the Red
Sea in the Southern part."

SoMe days since a man took a canvas ba,g, with
about tglbs. of :guti-poWder, into. a Smith's
shop at Holy Well, to have it weighed, and care-
lessly laid it down near the forge where the Smith
was at work, when some sparks of the iron falling
on the bag, the powder exploded, and tore and
burnt the Smith, his apprentice, and the stranger,
in such a manner, that their lives are despaired of.
The Smith's wife, far advanced in her pregnancy,
with four children, were in a room. above, at
breakfast ; thcy were forced through the roof, and
thrown on a pig-stye adjoining, excepting one of
the children, who fell amongst the ruins, and be-
ing miraculously, covered by some rafters from
the filling walls, was dug from beneath the ruins.
with a slight contusion only on his forehead ;
,al-
though much bruited' and burnt, the poor woman
and her children are likely to recover.