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2 HORSES AND THEIR FURNITURE.
3 The women wear a shirt like that of the men, but much longer.
4 It is made of finer materials, and generally coloured or embroidered
5 with flowers in silk : in the West, it is often entirelj of silk. Thef
6 wear coloured trowsers, tighter than those of the men; and ha;ve a
7 gmall cape of bri^ coloured silk, embroidered- With gold thread«
8 which scarcely comes down to the forehead or the ears ; and a large
9 riieefe» either plain or printed, which they throw over their heads, and
10 with which they hide their faces when a stranr^cr approaches. In the
11 West the women often tic a blnrk handkerchief round their heads
12 over their caps. They divide tiie hair over their hces, and plait it
13 into two locks, which fasten at the back of their heads.
14 Their ornaments are strings of Venetian iie(|uiiis, worn round their
15 heads, and chains of gold or silver, wiiich are hooked up over the
16 forehead, pass round the hciid, and end in two large balls, which
17 hang down near the ears. Ear-rings and rings on the fingers, are
18 also worn, a^. arc pendants in the middle cartilage of the iiosi-, which
19 was formerly the custom in Persia, and still is in India ami Arabia.
20 Such is the dress of the married women, tlie unmarried are diiitm-
21 guished by wearing white trowsera* and by having their hair loose.
22 The conveyances of Aighaumiftaim ue so different from our own,
23 thifc it it neoasnrj to aaj.a lew yntda regnduig them : those uaed in
24 coinmerbe and agriculturoi will be menfiQOffd-cbeiwhitek I here apok
25 of thoae employ^ by tisveDen. There are no whed-canii^ei ia the
26 eonntry (or m any part of Persia), and palankattia, are not Med:
27 the eommon way of trarelling for both aesest is en ho^hebacfc. The
28 oidinaiy ]MH!e is a vjeiyloiigwalk, tiduch caim
29 of fire or alx mileB an hour. Gmrieia and people going long jour-
30 ncjm trot; but that u not a eoninum paoe for traTettei% and it is
31 reckoned • proof, of levity in a man of the npper chsaet to gaDop^
32 unless on some oocaiionthat fciilly raquiiea speed. NbmanthinlES
33 of trottmg or galloping when he is riding ibt pkasun^ or goiiiig ftoni
34 one house to anodier. *
35 • Sw Plate lU.
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