| Show the somali matron ta is distinguished externally from the maiden malden by a filet of blue blua net work or judigo dyed cotton which covering the head and containing the hair hangs bangs down to the neck virgins wear their thel r locks long parted in the middle and plaited in fil a multitude of hard bard thin thiu pig pigtail tails talis sr on certain fesh fOSH festivals they twine dlower flowers e and plaster the head like kaffir women with the has the merit of originality with massive rounded features large I irge flat craniums long big eyes broad brows heavy chins rich brown complexions completions complex ions and round faces they greatly resemble the stony beautia beauties of egypt the models of the laud hud ere persia greece and rome reformed the profile and nd bleached the skin tb they y it are of the benu s s kaill cyga order of beauty t the e feature is scarcely ever een seen amongst young girls but after the first child it becomes remarkable to a stranger the arabs araba have not fallad to make it a matter of jibe clitis a wonderful tact fact that tour roar aps swell like boivid rice or a skin blown biovin out sings linga a satirical yemeni the somal sommai retort bv ba comparing the lauk lank haunches of their neighbors to flihse of tadpoles or young frogs one of their peculiar charms u aixa a soft low and pla pIa aliTe voice derived from the african progenitors always an excellent thing ia in women here it has an un efin gin fia able charm J 1 have often lain iain awake ake for hours to the conversation of the bedouin girls whose accents sounded bounded in my carb cars rather like music than mere utterance in muscular strength and end ead endurance grance the women of somal are far superior to their lordo at home they are engaged all day in domestic done tic af fIrs and tendil the cattle 0 on journeys J their manifold duties are to load an and drive the ca camei camel neis nels to look after tho ropes and if necessary to mako them to pitch the it hilt a t to bring water and firewood 0 d and to cook both sex s ais is are bre equi equally lly ily temperate from necessity the me mead d and the millet miller bear so bommen amon among tha the and tha tho danal kil ara ura entirely u unknown to the sorna soma of the plains As it regards thair morals I 1 regret to s ay iy y that viet the traveler does not fand them in the fhe he state which t etoral doctrines lead lileto liin to expect after wandering we ara are almost tump tamp ed led to believe the bad doctrine that mortality ia is a matter of geography that nations and raws rams have like individuals a pet vice and that by restrain ing one e you oli only exasperate exa sperato another As a gen ing elti elii eral oral dl rute rule women prefer amour lamour ettes ettas with strangers following tha tho well known arab proverb the new ne comer corner falleth the eya 1 in caso case of candal scandal the wr omans v omana omana tribe reven re Zis its honor upon the mail man should a wire wife dil disappear appear with a fellow elansa n and her flus lius husband band baud accord divorce no penal measures are taken but she saltars hafl drs la in alid lier iler female femie friends do not spara spare her generally t the 11 e so somali rn 1 1 I women are of cold temperament pe tie tle result of artificial as well vs as natural causes ilke hka tho iho kafars they ara very prolific but peculiarly bad mothers neither loved nor cor respected by their children the tho fair sex bex lasta longer in eastern alrica africa than thin in india and arabia at thirty however charms are oa on the tha wane mane and when oll oil ace aga comes oa on tiley they ara are ra no ex to lle the lie hideous of tho tile dist eist Bur Burton tong tons 8 first foot root ia east eust t africa |
