The Women in possession of the Streets.--The Grand Factions of Ghadames, the _Ben Weleed_ and the _Ben Wezeet_.--Interest of the People in Algerian Affairs.--Names, from Bodily Deformities.--Starving Slaves makes them Thieves.--Disease of the _Arak-el-Abeed_.--Finances of Ghadames.--The Prophet Jonah, still living.--Bad system of collecting Taxes by common Soldiers.--Essnousee leaves for Ghat, alone.--The _Thob_.--Stroke of the Moon.--Mission of Impostors always that of pretended Mercy to Men.--How the Turk governs the Arabs.--Saharan _Lady_-Gentlemen.--Classic and Vulgar Names of Things.--The _Wadan_, or _Oudad_.--Nimrod, the Hercules of the Saharan Moors.--Enoch, a Tailor.--Noah, a Carpenter.--Serpents and Monsters in The Desert.--Teach Geography to the People.--Indolence of the Inhabitants of Africa. _19th._--MORNING spent in spelling the Malta Times. Saw a Ben-Wezeetee, who protested that all the money of the country was in the hands of the Ben-Weleed. I asked if he ever went to the Ben-Weleed. "For what," he replied angrily, "should I go to see those devils?" In the afternoon found all the streets deserted by the men-folks, and in possession of the women, girls, and little children, who were playing all sorts of pranks, and dancing and singing like so many people let loose from Bedlam. As soon as they saw me there was a simultaneous rush at me, all crying out, "Oh, Christian! Christian! where's your mother? where's your sister? where's your wife?--don't you want a wife?" Then they began to pelt me with date-stones. I got out of the way as quickly as possible. Wondered what in the world had become of the men. At last found them and the boys all congregated round a mosque, this being some important ceremony of religion.