It appears that the kind of face-veil, called in Arabic ḳináạ is a piece of muslin, about a yard or more in length, and somewhat less in width, a portion of which is placed over the head, beneath the izár, the rest hanging down in front, to the waist, or thereabout, and entirely concealing the face. I have often seen Arab women, particularly those of the Wahhábees, wearing veils of this kind composed of printed muslin, completely concealing their features, yet of sufficiently loose fabric to admit of their seeing their way. But the more common kind of Arab face-veil is a long strip of white muslin, or of a kind of black crape, covering the whole of the face excepting the eyes, and reaching nearly to the feet. It is suspended at the top by a narrow band, which passes up the forehead, and which is sewed, as are also the two upper corners of the veil, to a band that is tied round the head. This veil is called burḳo´. The black kind is often ornamented with gold coins, false pearls, etc., attached to the upper part. It is not so genteel as the white veil, unless for a lady in mourning. [257] Chap. iv. 26, 27. [258] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, section 4. [259] Idem, section 6. [260] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, i. 229. [261] Idem, i. 223. [262] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 78. [263] Idem, ii. 79. [264] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, section 4. [265] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, section 8. [266] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, section 8. [267] Ibid.; and Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 105. [268] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 104. [269] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, loco laudato; and Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 89. [270] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, 1.1.; Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 89. [271] Account of the Emeer Moḥammad Agha El-Bároodee, obituary, year 1205. [272] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, section 8. [273] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, section 7. [274] Modern Egyptians, ch. vi. [275] "The Protestants of Hungary admit the plea of 'irrevocabile odium.'"--Urquhart's Spirit of the East, ii. 416. [276] A religious lady once asked me if I so conformed with the manners of the Easterns as to eat in their "beastly manner." I replied, "Do not call it a 'beastly manner:' call it the manner of our Lord and his Apostles." But some excuse may be made in this case. I was determined, when I first went to the East, never to conform to the practice of eating with the fingers when I could avoid it; however, after I had first seen the manner of doing this, I immediately adopted the custom, and continued it. [277] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 81. [278] Selections from the Ḳur-án, 1st. ed., p. 59. [279] Urquhart's Spirit of the East, ii. 415-416. See the two chapters on "the life of the Harem" and "State of Women," which I think the most valuable portion of the book. [280] Modern Egyptians, ch. vi.