158 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, garment, for which the soldiers cast lots ; being 
** luithoiU searUf ivoven from the top throughout." 
It was the most antient dress of the inhabitants 
of this country. Upon their heads they now 
wear a small turban, (or dirty rag, like a coarse 
handkerchief, bound across the temples,) one 
corner of which generally hangs down ; and 
this, by way of distinction, is sometimes fringed 
with strings, in knots. The ^rab women are 
not so often concealed from view as in other 
parts of Turkey : we had often seen them in 
jicre. They render their persons as hideous and 
disgusting as any of the barbarians of the South 
Seas : their bodies are covered with a long blue 
shift ; but their breasts are exposed ; and these, 
resembling nothing human, extend to an extra- 
ordinary length. Upon their heads they wear 
two handkerchiefs ; one as a hood, and the 
other bound over it, as a fillet across the 
temples. Just above the right nostril they 
place a small button, sometimes studded with 
pearl, a piece of glass, or any other glittering 
substance: this is fastened by a plug thrust 
tlirough the cartilage of the nose. Sometimes 
they have the cartilaginous separation between 
the nostrils bored for a ring, as large as those 
ordinarily used in Europe for hanging curtains ; 
and this, pendent on the upper lip, covers the 
mouth ; so that, in order to eat, it is necessary 
