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entertaining: for the several sorts of animals that lie within this compass, being thus driven together, or frighted from their abodes, they rarely fail of having agreeable chases after hares, jackalls, hyænas, and other wild beasts.-Shaw's Travels, vol. i. p. 421.

HHYMAS.

THE Bedoweens, as their great ancestors the Arabians did before them, Isa. xiii. 20, live in tents, called hhymas, from the shelter which they afford the inhabitants; and beet el shaar, houses of hair, from the materials or webs of goat's hair whereof they are made. They are the very same which the ancients called arapalia; and being then, as they are to this day, secured from the weather by a covering only of such hair-cloth as our coal sacks are made of, might very justly be described by Virgil to have, rara tecta. The colour of them is beautifully alluded to, Cant. i. 5, "I am black but comely, like the tents of Kedar:" for nothing, certainly,

can afford a more delightful prospect than a large extensive plain, whether in its verdure or even scorched up by the sun's beams, with those moveable habitations pitched in circles upon it. When we find any number of these tents together, (and I have seen from from three to three hundred,) then, as it has already been taken notice of, they are usually placed in a circle, and constitute a donwar. The fashion of each tent is of an oblong figure, not unlike the bottom of a ship turned upside down, as Sallust has long ago described them. However, they differ in bigness, according to the number of people who live in them; and are accordingly supported, some with one pillar, others with two or three, whilst a curtain or carpet let down, upon occasion, from each of these divisions, turns the whole into so many separate apartments. These tents are kept firm and steady by bracing or stretching down their eves with cords, tied to hooked wooden pins, well pointed, which they drive into the ground with a mallet; one of these pins answering to the nail, as the mallet does to the hammer,

which Jael used in fastening to the ground the temples of Sisera, Judg. iv. 21. The pillars which I have mentioned are straight poles, eight or ten feet high and three or four inches in thickness; serving not only to support the tent itself, but, being full of hooks fixed there for the purpose, the Arabs hang upon them their clothes, baskets, saddles, and accoutrements of war.-Shaw's Travels, vol. i. p. 421.

HYKES.

THE chief branch of manufactories of the Kabyles and Arabs is the making of hykes. The women alone are employed in this work, who do not use the shuttle, but conduct every thread of the woof with their fingers. These hykes are of different sizes, and of different qualities and fineness; the usual size of them is six yards long, and five or six feet broad, serving the Kabyle and Arab for a complete dress in the day, and, as they sleep in their raiment as the Israelites did of

old, Deut. xxiv. 13, it serves likewise for his bed and covering by night. It is a loose, but troublesome garment, being frequently disconcerted and falling on the ground, so that the person who wears it is every moment obliged to tuck it up and fold it anew about his body. This shows the great use there is of the girdle, whenever they are concerned in any active employment; and, in consequence thereof, the force of the scripture injunction, alluding thereunto, of having our loins girded, in order to set about it. The method of wearing these garments, with the use they are at other times put to, in serving for coverlids to their beds, should induce us to take the finer sort of them, at least such as are worn by the ladies and persons of distinction, to be the peplus of the ancients; Ruth's veil, which held six measures of barley, might be of the like fashion.-Shaw's Travels, vol. i. p. 403.

BURNOOSE.

THE burnoose, which answers to our cloak, is often for warmth worn over these hykes. This too is another great branch of their woollen manufactory. It is wove in one piece, and shaped exactly like the garment of the little god Telesphorus: viz. strait about the neck, with a cape or Hippocrates sleeve for a cover to the head, and wide. below like a cloak. Some of them likewise are fringed round the bottom, like Parthenaspa's and Trajan's garment, upon the basso-relievo of Constantine's arch. The burnoose without the cape seems to answer to the Roman pallium, and with it to the bardocucullus.-Ibid. p. 406.

Several Arabs and Kabyles go bare-headed year round.-Ibid. p. 407.

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