1 470 BULKR
2 Eren the women wear boots. The rest of their dress is something
3 like that of the men, but longer ; tliey tie a silk handkerchief round
4 their heads, throw a sheet of silk or cotton over all, wear golden and
5 silver ornaments, m\i\ plait their hair into a long queue, which hang^
6 down from thi- middle ot the head, like those ot the Chinese.
7 The Uzbeks breaktasL oii Lea and leavened bread, which, contrary
8 to the usual practice of Asia, they eat stale and keep for a fortnight.
9 Their ft a is made by bulling the leaves : it is mixed with millv and
10 bailer, or (more frequently) the oil made from the fat tailh of the
11 Doombeb riieep. The rich alone use sugw:. Hie great meal is in
12 the evening, aiid oooaiato of pikvft or fleah and broth like that of the
13 AfghamiB. Hie lidi of ONune huve a Tariety of dreascd diahea. The
14 Utbeka are kntfini to be fond of hone-flesh, but aa that fiiod ia es-
15 peniive^ th^ are in geneanl obliged to be oontent with bee£ Hie
16 wealthj indeed firtten honea Ibr the table all the jear, and the pow
17 genendly get aome of the aame aort of proviaiona during winter..
18 The niitii?"*^ beverageu kimmia, an intoxicattngliqnoriroO known
19 to be prepared fiom mare*s milk. The milk ia put in the aftienioon
20 into a aldn, audi aa ia uaed in India for holding water, and is allowed,
21 to leinain till within two or three hours of day break, when it ia
22 beaten and rolled about» till morning at least; but the longer Ihe
23 better. The liquor thus made is of a whitish colour and a sourish
24 taate: it is only to be had in plenty during the two last months of
25 summer, and those who can afford it are generally drunk for the
26 greator part of that period ; but kimmiz is not sold, and those only
27 can enjoy it who have mares enough to make it in the iiouse. Ano-
28 ther intoxicating liquor called bozeh is more f }iea]il\ procured, but it
29 is fiuf more strictly forbidden : it is a ferrnenteil liquor made iVenj
30 different grains, (particularly from Arzun) which resembles water
31 gruel in appearance, and is sour to the taste. It is also known in
32 &ther was an Uzbek and his mother a Syud. An Uxbdt of pure descent would perhapt
33 have hanber fisatorea, mi onairiio iahahiiwl the deaart, nider gwrmentei '
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