Works, Volume 94Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 65
... women paint their faces with colours so that at night they look ugly when the heat makes the colours run . The maidens go covered with a clear black transparent cloth over their faces . Further the women walk on great high soles covered ...
... women paint their faces with colours so that at night they look ugly when the heat makes the colours run . The maidens go covered with a clear black transparent cloth over their faces . Further the women walk on great high soles covered ...
Page 124
... women wear leather trousers with under - skirts , and the men go barefoot . Also the men wear turbans wound round the head , but not the women . Further the women wear a high thing on their heads like a bowl , which is wound about with ...
... women wear leather trousers with under - skirts , and the men go barefoot . Also the men wear turbans wound round the head , but not the women . Further the women wear a high thing on their heads like a bowl , which is wound about with ...
Page 157
... women only without men . They come together once a year for ten days in order to beget children , and when the women give birth to boys they send them straightway home to their fathers , and if the father does not want to keep the boy ...
... women only without men . They come together once a year for ten days in order to beget children , and when the women give birth to boys they send them straightway home to their fathers , and if the father does not want to keep the boy ...
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