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A Woman’s Journey Round the World

CHAPTER X
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With the exception of the Mahomedans and Jews, none of these different people bestow much care upon their dress.

Save a small piece of cloth of about a hand's-breadth, and fastened between their legs, they go about naked.

Those who are at all dressed, wear short trousers and an upper garment.
I saw very few women, and these only near their huts, which they appear to leave less than any females with whom I am acquainted.
Their dress, also, was exceedingly simple, consisting merely of an apron bound round their loins, a short jacket that exposed rather than covered the upper part of their body, and a sort of rag hanging over their head.

Many were enveloped in large pieces of cloth worn loosely about them.

The borders and lobes of their ears were pierced and ornamented with ear-rings, while on their feet and arms, and round their necks, they wore chains and bracelets of silver, or some other metal, and round one of their toes an extremely massive ring.
Any one would suppose that, in a country where the females are allowed to show themselves so little, they would be closely wrapped up; but this is not the case.


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