The Talk, a tree that in size resembles the small Olive. It flowers in yellow sprigs, and supplies the hard and lemon-coloured wood, from which the handles and frames of the Fezzanner’s instruments of husbandry are made:
The White Thorn:
A kind of brushwood that resembles the Spanish broom:
The Date tree, which is common:
The Olive and the Lime, which are described as scarce; the Apricot, the Pomegranate, and the Fig:
Indian corn and barley, the two favourite objects of the Fezzanner’s cultivation:
Wheat, of which but little is raised:
Pompions or calabash, carrots, cucumbers, onions, and garlick.
Of the tame animals that are raised in Fezzan, the Shereef enumerates,
The Sheep, which is described as of a light brown colour; as having a broad tail, and as cloathed with a species of hair rather than of wool: