. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. erty and want of enterprise have becomeacclimatised among them under the rule of the Turks. The dress of the peasants, says Mrs. Scott-Stevenson ( Our Homein Cyprus ), is picturesque, and certainly becoming to young people ;yellow or crimson shoes, short white socks, loose white trousers fastenedat the ankle, a skirt of light cotton, and a richly embroidered bodice(generally
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. erty and want of enterprise have becomeacclimatised among them under the rule of the Turks. The dress of the peasants, says Mrs. Scott-Stevenson ( Our Homein Cyprus ), is picturesque, and certainly becoming to young people ;yellow or crimson shoes, short white socks, loose white trousers fastenedat the ankle, a skirt of light cotton, and a richly embroidered bodice(generally in velvet), cut in a low square on the bosom, which is coveredwith a transparent piece of worked muslin. Innumerable glass bangleson the arms complete the costume. On their heads they wear a silkhandkerchief tightly fastened across the top, and holding back two long-plaits of hair. Bunches of jessamine and sweet-scented geranium-leavesare fastened on one side, and on the other a half-wreath of worsted andsilk flowers on wire. Mrs. Stevenson describes the Cypriotes as dull andlazy, frugal and sober, almost miserly, but good parents, devoted to theirhomes and their villages, and easily governed. I VIII. K K ^% 3[^M^. CHAPTER XX. Origin—Early history—The Koreysh—Mahomet—The Holy War—Removal of the Caliphate—The Wahhabees—Wars of conquest—Me-hemet Ali—Present states—The Bedouins—The Sheiks—Modeof life—Physical characters- Manners—Clothing—Arab horses and otheranimals —The settled Arabs—Slaves—Hos-pitality—Clothing—Arab towns—Modem in-fluence—Holy places. R. AV. G. PALGEAAE, in his masterly article on Arabia inthe Encyclopaedia Britannica, is in-clined to assimi to theOrigin. at -x pure Arabs a community of origin with the Hamitic races ofnorth-eastern Africa. The term Himyar, or dusky, applied, nowto the ruling class, now to the en-tire nation, supports this view. TheMustareb Arabs of the North haveevidently mixed much with Asiatic people
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