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CIVIL HISTORY AND 





An Arab of Rank in the Costume of Yemen. 



with strait sleeves covered by a flowing gown. The 

 turban is very large, falling down between the 

 shoulders. The jambea, a sort of crooked cutlass 

 or dagger, is inserted in a broad girdle, and to the 

 handle is sometimes attached a kind of chaplet or 

 rosary, which the Mohammedans use at prayers. 



Since the visit of the Danish travellers internal 

 wars and political revolutions have wrought many 

 changes in Yemen, and greatly eclipsed the splen- 

 dour of that ancient monarchy. About the com- 

 mencement of the present century, Mr Pringle, the 

 British resident at Mocha, twice visited Sanaa, which 



