URUSPIEII BEAUTY. 



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villiigers were constantly i:)assing and repassing in front of 

 our door, and we had ample opportunities of studying 

 their characteristics. The men were a fine race, w^ith a 

 very high type of countenance. The women we saw were 

 prematurely old and wrinkled, Avitli the exception of the 

 quite young girls, who were many of them pretty little 

 things, with close-fitting caps hung round with coins, and 

 long elf-locks streaming out from beneath. The men can- 



Womaii of Unispioli. 



not possess all the beauty of the race; but as this is a 

 Mahommedan country, the youno- wives and marriageable 

 maidens are probably kept more or less in seclusion. 



July 29tli. — As usual in the morning, although we got 

 Tip and breakfasted early, the porters did not appear till 

 two hours later, and then only dropped in one by one. The 

 bread too had not been baked, and it was not till 8.30 a.m. 



