An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 . y the place of a tarhah. In additionto these articles of dress, many women who are not of the verypoor classes wear, as a covering, a kind of plaid, similar in formto the habarah, composed of two pieces of cotton, woven in smallchequers of blue and white, or cross stripes, with a mixture ofred at each end. It is called milayeh : ^ in general it is wornin the same manner as the habarah ; but sometimes like the See Genesis xxiv. 65 ; and Isaiah iii. 23. See also i Corinthians xi. lo,and a
An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 . y the place of a tarhah. In additionto these articles of dress, many women who are not of the verypoor classes wear, as a covering, a kind of plaid, similar in formto the habarah, composed of two pieces of cotton, woven in smallchequers of blue and white, or cross stripes, with a mixture ofred at each end. It is called milayeh : ^ in general it is wornin the same manner as the habarah ; but sometimes like the See Genesis xxiv. 65 ; and Isaiah iii. 23. See also i Corinthians xi. lo,and a marginal note on that verse. Some of those who are descended from the Prophet wear a green burko.* For nmiaah. 40 THE MODERN EGYPTIANS. The upper part of the black biirko is often ornamentedwith false pearls, small gold coins, and other little flat ornamentsof the same metal (called bark ); sometimes with a coral bead,and a gold coin beneath ; also with small coins of base silver;and more commonly with a pair of chain tassels, of brass orsilver (called oyoon), attached to the corners. A square. FELLAH WOMEN, black silk kerchief (called asbeh ), with a border of red andyellow, is bound round the head, doubled diagonally, and tiedwith a single knot behind ; or, instead of this, the tarboosh and • There is a superior kind of mildyeh, of silk, and of various colours ; butthis is now seldom worn. The two pieces which compose the milayeh aresewed together, like those which compose the habarah. DRESS. 41 faroodeeyeh are worn, though by very few women of the lowerclasses. The best kind of shoes worn by the females of the lowerorders are of red morocco, turned up, but round at the burko and shoes are most coniinon in Cairo, and are alsoworn by many of the women throughout Lower Egypt; but inUpper Egypt, the burko is very seldom seen, and shoes arescarcely less uncommon. To supply the place of the former,when necessary, a portion of the tarhah is drawn before the fac
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