He said the English ladies have some understanding, the Arab women have none.

It is the custom of this country that a woman must never be seen eating or walking, or in company with her husband.

When she walks abroad, she must wrap herself in a large white sheet, and look like a ghost, and at home she must be treated more like a slave than a partner.

Indeed, women are considered of so little consequence that to ask a man after the health of his wife, is a question which is said never to find a place in the social intercourse of this country." Jan.

24, 1825, Dr.Goodell wrote, "Some adult females come occasionally to be taught by Mrs.Bird or Mrs.Goodell, and although their attendance is very irregular, and their _disadvantages very great_, being _without Arabic books_, and their friends deriding their efforts, yet they make some improvement.