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height, well made, athletic, and with open prepos- 

 sessing countenances. They have a decidedly Jewish 

 type of nose, large oriental eyes, fine teeth, and oval 

 faces, the lower part of which is generally covered 

 with a fine jet-black beard. They wear no head-dress, 

 but the hair, which grows in great profusion,- is parted 

 in the centre, and flows in curls all round the head. 

 Their dress consists of a waist-cloth and a kind of 

 cotton sheet, which they wear like a Roman toga, 

 thrown over the body, leaving the arms and legs bare. 

 The men are decidedly the finest-looking race in Hin- 

 dostan, having a noble independent bearing, and none 

 of that cringing and fawning obsequiousness which is 

 observable in every other caste of Native. The 

 women are tall and commanding, with figures for the 

 most part faultless ; erect but remarkably graceful, 

 somewhat slight perhaps, but exquisitely rounded ; 

 every line full of softness and beauty, every limb in 

 fine svmmetry, supple, and delicate. The head is 

 peculiarly small and elegant, the face oval, and gene- 

 rally of the Israelitish type. The features are small 

 and finely chiselled ; the mouth beautifully formed, 

 and graced with pearl-like teeth ; the eyes large, 

 lustrous, wild, soft and gazelle-like ; the eyebrows are 

 much arched and finely pencilled ; the lashes very 

 long and full ; the hair of the head abundant, full of 

 natural waves, and flowing in ringlets over the neck 

 and shoulders. Their skins, of a softness beyond 



