from acre to nazareth. ‘25? 
■versally decorated with broad black and white stripes, passing 
vertically down the back s this is of one square piece, with 
holes for the arms : it has a seam down the back. Made With¬ 
out this seam, it is considered of greater value. Here, then, 
we perhaps beheld the form and materials of our Saviour’s gar- 
ment, for which the soldiers cast Jots ; being “ without scam* 
woven from the top throughout” It was the most ancient 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 frin¬ 
ged with strings, in knots. The Arab women are not so often 
concealed from view as in other parts of Turkey : we had of¬ 
ten seen them in Acre. They render their persons as hideous 
and disgusting as any barbarians of the South Seas : their bo* 
dies are covered with a long blue shift; but their breasts are 
exposed; and these, resembling nothing human, extend to an 
extraordinary length. Upon their heads they wear two hand¬ 
kerchiefs ; one as a hood, and the other bound over it, as a fil¬ 
let, 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 through the cartilage of the nose. Sometimes they have 
the cariilagioous separation between the nostrilsbored for a ring,, 
as lar^e 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 to raise it. Their faces, hands* 
, and arms, are tattooed, and covered with hideous scars; the it 
eyelashes, and eyes being always painted, or rather dirted, with, 
some dingy blacker blue powder. Their lips are dyed of a 
deep and-dusky blue, as-if they had been -eating blackberries. 
Their teeth ' are jet black ; their nails and' fingers brick red | 
their wrists, as well as their ankles, - are laden with large metal 
cinctures, studied 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 daemon had em¬ 
ployed 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’Arvieux,* when IJyehe , wife of Hass.an the Majorcan slave* 
,r v • : 
% See the very interesting travels of the Chevalier d'Arvieux, as svritten by M. de la 
Roque, and published.a,t Paris in 171*7. D’Arvieux was made French consul in Syria 
Sn 1682, His account of the Arabs exhibits a faithful picture of their raaanergq'Saii 
