. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. have been. Generally speaking, our missionaries meetthe Arabs as the town dwellers in their homestucked away in the narrow, filthy, crookedstreets of the native quarters of great citieslike Algiers, or as men of the desert, in theirtents of black or brown camels hair. In theirways of living, their dress, food, dwellings,customs and government, these desert nomadsare as their fathers were thousands of years ago. Dr. Zwemer writing of the physical charac-teristics of the Arabs says: The typical Arabface is round-oval, bu
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. have been. Generally speaking, our missionaries meetthe Arabs as the town dwellers in their homestucked away in the narrow, filthy, crookedstreets of the native quarters of great citieslike Algiers, or as men of the desert, in theirtents of black or brown camels hair. In theirways of living, their dress, food, dwellings,customs and government, these desert nomadsare as their fathers were thousands of years ago. Dr. Zwemer writing of the physical charac-teristics of the Arabs says: The typical Arabface is round-oval, but the general leanness ofthe features detracts from its regularity; thebones are prominent; the eyebrows long andbushy; the eye small, deep-set, fiery black ordark, deep brown. The face expresses half-dignity, half-cunning, and is not unkindly,though never smiling or benignant. The figureis well-knit, muscular, long-limbed, never to his character, the same authority declaresthat the Arab is polite, good-natured, lively,manly, patient, courageous, and hospitable to. AND AMONG THE KRAALS 19 a fault, but that at the same time he is con-temptuous, untruthful, sensuous, distrustful,proud and superstitious. SUPERSTITIONS SWAY But whether of the city or the desert, youwill find the Arab reeking with absurd super-stitions and legends. The evil eye is always aterror, and is only to be warded off by the wear-ing of amulets and charms. Beads, old coins,teeth, holy earth in small bags, a Koran orchapter from it, are all worn for their beneficenteffects. A universal superstition is the beliefthat to his everlasting undoing there may becast upon his person or belongings, the ill luckof the evil eye. Let a stranger, particularlyone not a follower of the Prophet, look intentlyat something an Arab wears or carries, and hewill immediately moisten his finger and passit over the article in question in order to checkthe spell. A certain token of good luck is theimage of a hand called the han
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