. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . her lowest level comparedwith the sterner sex. In the countries ofSofala in South-east Africa, the followingcustom prevailed, according to Purchas,quoting from a sixteenth century , when the chief died—to give the quaintform of the original— Hee whom thedecessed had named his Successor, goethto the Kings House where the KingsWomen abide in expectation, and by theirconsent hee enters the house .... Some-times there are many Competitors, and then WOMAN. 38 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS Hee
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . her lowest level comparedwith the sterner sex. In the countries ofSofala in South-east Africa, the followingcustom prevailed, according to Purchas,quoting from a sixteenth century , when the chief died—to give the quaintform of the original— Hee whom thedecessed had named his Successor, goethto the Kings House where the KingsWomen abide in expectation, and by theirconsent hee enters the house .... Some-times there are many Competitors, and then WOMAN. 38 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS Hee succeeds whom the women admit to theKings House; for none may enter byLaw without their leave, nor can bee Kingwithout peaceable entrance ; forcible entrieforfeiting his Right and Title. By bribes,therefore, and other wayes they seeke tomake the Women on their side. What good, they have been very good, whenthey have been bad, they have been horrid. Women sovereigns have been knownfrom the earliest times ; the legend ofSemiramis, variously chronicled as theQueen of Babylon and Assyria, is at. /?,•.,•;>-,?/;,? ^v C. C. Piejce. WOMAN AS THE WEARER OF Chinese Girl. more could the most ardent and optimisticsuffragette desire ? From woman as an elector to woman asthe ruler is a natural transition, and thisis a subject to which it is impossible to dojustice in the narrow limits of this women in a position of paramountauthority are rare, yet such as have attainedit have usually acquired celebrity owing totheir excellence or the reverse; in fact, asthe rhyme has it, when they have been any rate evidence that female rule was not unknown at a remote period; in Egypt, where there is reasonWomen as , ^i, x j- • Rulers ^° suppose that the divme essence of kingship was trans-mitted in the female line, Queen Hatshep-sut not only did much to raise the countryfrom the decadence into which it hadfallen, but also actively encouraged foreignexploration, i
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