. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. nity may reach this ancient people. Another point of difference between thetwo races is in their estimate of eminent traveler in the Orient remarksthat the effect of the veil and ordinary styleof dress of the Mohammedan woman is tohide and unsex her. Convinced of this, it isa distinct relief, in investigating feminineaffairs among the Berbers, to find that nomatter where you discover the Berber woman(the Kabyles of North Africa being but onetribe of many included in the broader termBerber) you may see her face
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. nity may reach this ancient people. Another point of difference between thetwo races is in their estimate of eminent traveler in the Orient remarksthat the effect of the veil and ordinary styleof dress of the Mohammedan woman is tohide and unsex her. Convinced of this, it isa distinct relief, in investigating feminineaffairs among the Berbers, to find that nomatter where you discover the Berber woman(the Kabyles of North Africa being but onetribe of many included in the broader termBerber) you may see her face if you careto — a pretty one, usually, — for she is un-veiled. And the unveiling of the women ofthe tribes of the Berbers as the visible tokenof their release from other forms of bondage,more or less universal among Mohammedan \women. In no tribe where Arab blood pre-dominates do women have the same positionand regard as among the Berbers. And weare glad, knowing a bit of the Arab womenof North Africa, with the hand of Islamheavy upon them, that off in the mountains. 1G UNDER THE CRESCENT of Kabylia there are those who are hand-some and gay, who enjoy at least a measureof regard from their men, who wear brightdresses of yellow and red, clasped with greatbrooches of silver and coral, and who maylook out upon their own lovely mountainswith unveiled eyes.
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