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Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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leaves a considerable part of the bosomuncovered. A shawl or kerchief forms a loose girdle. Over this is along embroidered robe of cloth, velvet, or silk, or a shorter jacket. Theturban is worn in a high flat shape, very different from that of the men.Many wear house shoes or slippers of yellow or red morocco. This is theindoor costume; but for out-of-doors use a large loose gowTi with ex-tremely wide sleeves is donned, a long face-veil of wliite muslin con-cealing the face below the eyes, and reaching to the feet. Over all isthe great silk habarah. Lower-class women wear various degrees of lesselaborate clothing, and many of them never conceal their faces. It is remarkable in how slovenly a way the children are dressed,even among the wealthy, \Nrho treat them very indulgently in every way. Children ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ strict obedience and dutifulness to parents are inculcated. Circumcision is general, the ceremony taking place at the age of five or six, with much parade. Parents do not give
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I STREET SCENE, CAIRO.641 542 THE INHABITANTS OF AFRICA. their children much training themselves, the elementary teaching ofthe Mahometan religion constituting the balk of it. The native school-master teaches them reading, and to recite parts of the Koran; butlately many improved schools have been established in the towns, andeducation is beginning to have a chance. Houses in Cairo vary from one to three storeys in height, with flat roofs, and windows and balconies latticed round. The lowest floor is partly raised above the ground. The doors have usually a text from the Koran upon them, supposed to protect from the evil eye. They are fastened with a wooden bolt, and an iron ring serves as a knocker. The houses have inner courts with rooms all round. The gieat hindrance to true moral progress in Egypt is not polygamy^ which is not frequent, but divorce, which is very prevalent for slight Divorce and causes. Slavery is not yet abolished; and until it is, there will slavery. \^q much mor

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