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kind to animals, who bears pain with fortitude, and is loyal to 
his neighbours and his sultan ; the bad man is the reverse of all 
this. 
The Tors are rather wanting in vivacity, and are somewhat 
sluggish in action. They are, however, very quick tempered, and 
even passionate and brutal when excited by drink. They are very 
avaricious and little given to hospitality, except from interested 
motives. They are not very cleanly. They are very intemperate, 
and drunkenness is not considered either sinful or degrading. 
The women are associated with the men in all their occupations, 
save in war; but their presence does not appear to have exercised 
any softening influence upon the character of the men. 
The men are not much given to jealousy, unless with very good 
cause, and therefore the women do not avoid the society of men, 
and girls and even married women think nothing of passing the 
night with men who please them. They wear bells on their ankles 
and bangles round their necks and waists, and perfume themselves 
extensively in the hope of attracting lovers. Before marriage the 
young men and women are most lax, and indeed a father would be 
held up to public ridicule, if not well beaten, if he attempted to 
preserve his daughter’s chastity. Indeed, excessive ugliness or very 
bad health could alone secure to a girl her virginity. 
At markets, at feasts, and at dances, the young people have as 
much freedom as they could possibly desire ; the men visit their 
sweethearts at night, or the girls go to them, and it is not considered 
immoral. If, however, a father has any strong objection to any par- 
ticular suitor for his daughter’s hand, he may forbid him to visit her, 
and give him a thrashing if he catches him in her hut. Adultery 
is considered a purely personal injury, and no sympathy is shown 
by outsiders to a man who is not brave enough to kill the rival in 
his wife’s affections. Should he ask for help, the only reply would 
be — “You cannot be a good husband or your wife would be satisfied 
with you.” A police of eunuchs was once instituted to put down 
this open immorality, but it totally failed and was soon given up. 
The chiefs and rich men have all fairly large harems, and usually 
have one or two eunuchs, w 7 ho are slaves, to look after their women. 
But notwithstanding this precaution, the women do pretty much as 
they please, for either young men are dressed up as women and 
