234 MUHAMEDAN them : sugar, honey, or any thing sweet, being with these Arabs emblematical of peace and friendship. Some of the women of the Arabs are extremely handsome ; in all the simplicity of nature ** when unadorned adorned the most." To fine figures they unite handsome profiles, good and white teeth, and large, black, expressive, intelligent eyes, like the eyes of a gazel ; dark eye-brows, and dark long eye-lashes, which give a peculiar warmth and softness to the eye. They concern themselves little about time, and will sometimes come to converse after midnight with the Europeans. When the guard of the tent informs them they cannot go in, that the Christian is a-bed and undressed, they are not less astonished than we are to see them sleeping in the open air at night, on the ground, with their clothes on. When candles are brought into the tent at night, the servant wishes the company a good evening : he says " M'sah elkherCy" the literal meaning of which is " Good be mth you this ex)ening ;" which salutation it is courteous to return, even to a slave ; and if any one, however great his rank, were not to return it, be would be considered a bad muselman, a disaffected and inhospitable barbarian. The morning salutation is (Alem Allah sebak,) " May your morning be accompanied with the knowledge of God ;" or, {Sebah el khere, or sebahk Felkhere) " Good morning to you," or " May your morning be good/* Equals meeting, toucli hands, and then each kisses his own respectively ; they