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to raise it. Their faces, hands, and arms, are chap. 
tattooed, and covered with hideous scars ; their 
eye-lashes and eyes being always painted, or 
rather dirted, with some dingy black or blue 
powder. Their lips are dyed of a deep and 
dusky blue, as if they had been eating black- 
berries. Their teeth are jet black ; their nails 
and fingers brick red ; their wrists, as well as 
their ankles, are laden with large metal cinctures, 
studded with sharp pyramidal knobs and bits 
of glass. Very ponderous rings are also placed 
in their ears; so that altogether it might be 
imagined some evil dsemon had employed the 
whole of his ingenuity to maim and to disfigure 
the loveliest work of the creation. In viewing 
these women, we may form some notion of the 
object beheld by the Chevalier D'^rvieiLv\ 
when Hyche, wife of Hassan the Majorcan slave, 
for the first time condescended to unveil herself 
before him : only there was this diflference to 
heighten the effect of such a disclosure, that 
Hyche, with all the characteristic decorations 
of an Arabian female, was moreover a negress. 
(l) See the verj' interesting Travels of the Clievalier D'Arvievx, as 
written hy M. de la Roque, and published at Paris in 1717. D' Ariieitx 
was xa^A^ French Consul in Syria in 1682. His account of the Arabs 
exhibits a faithful picture of their manners, and bears the strongest 
internal evidence of truth. The particular circumstance to which 
allusion is here made is related in the -Sth page of the edition cited. 
