Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . i^i \^. 317 and the groups of people that are seen passing andrepassing in all the different and singular costumesof the East. Here may be seen Agas moving withslow and stately tread, dressed in white turbans andscarlet silk cloaks edged with costly fur, withdiamond-hilted kandjars and yataghans gleamingin their girdles : they are f
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . i^i \^. 317 and the groups of people that are seen passing andrepassing in all the different and singular costumesof the East. Here may be seen Agas moving withslow and stately tread, dressed in white turbans andscarlet silk cloaks edged with costly fur, withdiamond-hilted kandjars and yataghans gleamingin their girdles : they are followed each by fiveor six obsequious retainers, and a black slave car-ries their pipes and scarlet tobacco-bags. Swarthy,grim-visaged Arabs and Bedouins from the greatdesert, with their coarse cloaks hanging upon themlike the drapery of an ancient statue, congregateround the tobacco-shops, tlie armorers, and the crowd is compelled to make way fora procession of great men on horseback; or culpritsled about the streets preceded by an officer shoutingtheir crimes, and calling upon all to take bazars are graced with the presence of women,who make all the purchases for the household; andthe gallantry displayed by the shopmen in dealingwi
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