*o8 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER, 



The Arabians confider long and flraight hair as beauth. - 

 'full The Abymnians prefer the fhort and curled. The 

 Arabians perfume themfelves and their fhifts with a com*- 

 pofition of mufk, ambergreafe, incenfe, and benjoin, which 

 they, mix with the marp horny nails that are at the extre- 

 mity of the fifh furrumbac ; but why.this ingredient is added 

 I know not, as the fmell of it, when burnt, does not at all 

 differ from that of horn. They put all thefe ingredients into 

 a kind of cenfer on charcoal, and ftand over the fmoke of 

 it. The fmell is very agreeable ; but, in Europe, it would 

 be a very expenfive article of luxury. , 



The Arab women are not black, there are even fome ex- - 

 ceedingly fair. They are more corpulent than the men, 

 but are not much efteemed.--The Abyflinian girls : , who 

 are bought for money, are greatly preferred ; among other 

 reafons, becaufe their time of bearing children is longer; 

 few Arabian women have children after ,the age of twenty. 



At Loheia we received a- letter from Mahomet Gibberti, 

 telling us, that it would yet be ten days before he could 

 join us, and defiring us to be ready by that time. This hur- 

 ried us extremely, for we were much afraid we mould not 

 have time to fee the remaining part of the Arabian Gulf, to 

 where, it joins, with the Indian Ocean. 



On the 2 7th,. in the .evening, we parted from Loheia, but 

 were obliged to tow the boat out. About nine, we anchor- 

 ed between an ifland called Ormook, and the land ; about 

 eleven we fet fail with a wind.' at north-eait, and palled a 

 .duller of iflands on our left. 



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