. â »-WiW«- -V. Fir. 4.âruins of TEMPI,E; ok JUPITER AMMOX. cars and aeroplanes first appeared in this fanatical spot, which had previously been untroubled by Europeans. Siwan marriage customs are free and easy. The people marry very young, and as a rule, by the time a girl is eleven or twelve years of age she has been married and divorced three or four times. Generally speaking the inhabitants arc very punctilious about the question of divorce, carefully divorcmg one woman before they marry the next, though in a lifetime a man will fre- quently marry from thirty to forty wives. Needless to
. â »-WiW«- -V. Fir. 4.âruins of TEMPI,E; ok JUPITER AMMOX. cars and aeroplanes first appeared in this fanatical spot, which had previously been untroubled by Europeans. Siwan marriage customs are free and easy. The people marry very young, and as a rule, by the time a girl is eleven or twelve years of age she has been married and divorced three or four times. Generally speaking the inhabitants arc very punctilious about the question of divorce, carefully divorcmg one woman before they marry the next, though in a lifetime a man will fre- quently marry from thirty to forty wives. Needless to say, the birth-rate is low. On the night before the first marriage the maidens bathe in a well set apart for theii" use. It is a beautiful palm-fringed pool about 20 yards across and 40 feet deep, from the bottom of which water bubbles up, overflowing through an outlet into an irrigation brook. a decided preference for dogs, cats, rats, and mice. It is indeed impossible to keep a dog or a cat to deal with the hosts of rats and mice, as they so soon dis- appear into the cooking-pot. The Ruined Temple of Jupiter Ammon The principal building of interest in the oasis is the ruined temple of Jupiter Ammon. This was founded by priests from Thebes in 13S5 , or 200 years before the oasis was colonised by Rameses III. Siwa was then known as Ammonia, and after the temple was built it began to gain fame as the home of an Oracle. So famous did the Oracle become that the Athenians kept special galleys to convey questions to it for solution, their expeditions coming by sea to Mersa Matruh, and thence over the desert by camel. In 331 Alexander the Great visited Ammonia to
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