THE WOMEN OF NUBIA. 



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her head. Their air, at once easy and reserved, their black modest 

 eyes, recall those images of the holy history which every one has 

 seen ; only, instead of a cotton stuff gaily coloured, imagine a piece 

 very dirty and often in tatters, and you will have the portrait 

 of the Nubian woman ; this garment is otherwise so naturally 

 draped and so proudly worn, that it yields in nothing to the ancient 

 models." 



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