The men are armed with guns and swords. Every youth, as soon as he reaches a certain age, is obliged to purchase a gun, all his earnings being saved for this purpose. Although the most common weapon is the flintlock of the country, a quantity of cheap double-barrelled guns, all muzzle-loading, are to be found. The native of Tafilet has a hankering after bullets that fit a No. 12 bore, and a charge of loose buckshot and nails he looks upon as a most estimable way of attacking his enemy. Little quarter is given: in the case of fighting between Arabs and Berbers, all males taken prisoner who are able to carry arms are mercilessly killed, usually stabbed with knives,—powder and shot, as already mentioned, being expensive. The saddlery is of native design, but the bridles are usually brought from Algeria, being of the style used by the Franco-Arab cavalry of that country. This the Filelis find stronger than their own. The food of the common people consists principally of gruel and _kuskusu_, the latter at times garnished with vegetables, and on rare occasions with meat or fowl; but it may be safely said that so great is the poverty in Tafilet that the poorer classes, although never wanting for absolute food, do not taste meat two or three times in the year, mutton on the Eid el Kebir being often the sole occasion. The coinage to-day in use in Tafilet consists almost entirely of the Moorish money struck in Paris, and although in Morocco City all kinds of damaged Spanish silver is in use, at Tafilet it is not accepted. The rates in use at Tafilet are quite different to elsewhere. All sums of money are calculated in _mitkals_ and _okeas_, neither of which exist in coin, being only verbal terms. In Morocco 12½ _mitkals_ go to the Spanish dollar, and 10 _okeas_ to the _mitkal_, which gives 125 _okeas_ to the dollar; but at Tafilet, although 10 _okeas_ compose a _mitkal_, 5 _mitkals_ complete the dollar, so that 50 _okeas_ is the value of a Spanish dollar there, instead of 125 _okeas_. However, as the same coins are in use all over the country, and the _okea_ and _mitkal_ are only expressions, the result is the same, though at first confusing. This change in calculation begins at Dads, and is found in the districts east of that country.