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444 THE TOILETTE IN BOKHARA, CIRCASSIA, ETC.
emblem of distinction between the infidel and the true
believer.
Sir A. Burnes thus describes the “ Great King
—“ He was plainly dressed in a silken robe, or udrus,
with a white turban. He sometimes wears an aigrette
of feathers ornamented with diamonds. His suite
did not exceed a hundred people ; most of them were
dressed in robes of Russian brocade, and wore gold
ornamented swords —I should call them knives — the
mark of distinction in this country.”
The Turkomans are a warlike and handsome race.
They wear the talpak, a square or conical black
skull-cap of sheep-skin, which is about a foot in height,
and much more becoming for a warrior than a turban.
They are very partial to bright colours, and generally
choose light red, green, or yellow for their flowing
chumpkans, or pelisses. Long brown boots are uni-
versally worn.
To the ladies of this tribe belonged the beautiful
and delicate Roxana, the bewitching queen of Alex-
ander, that Peri of the East whose beauty, like the
perfume of the rose, is remembered with pleasure long
after the casket which enshrined it is mouldered in the
dust. They wear a head-dress consisting of a lofty
white turban, shaped like a military shako, but still
higher, over which they throw a red or white scarf
that falls in folds down to the waist. As these ladies
are generally rather on a large scale, this head-dress
becomes them.
They attach a variety of ornaments to their hair,
which hangs in tresses over their shoulders. Unlike
most other Eastern women, they do not consider a veil
a necessary appendage to their dress. The rest of
emblem of distinction between the infidel and the true
believer.
Sir A. Burnes thus describes the “ Great King
—“ He was plainly dressed in a silken robe, or udrus,
with a white turban. He sometimes wears an aigrette
of feathers ornamented with diamonds. His suite
did not exceed a hundred people ; most of them were
dressed in robes of Russian brocade, and wore gold
ornamented swords —I should call them knives — the
mark of distinction in this country.”
The Turkomans are a warlike and handsome race.
They wear the talpak, a square or conical black
skull-cap of sheep-skin, which is about a foot in height,
and much more becoming for a warrior than a turban.
They are very partial to bright colours, and generally
choose light red, green, or yellow for their flowing
chumpkans, or pelisses. Long brown boots are uni-
versally worn.
To the ladies of this tribe belonged the beautiful
and delicate Roxana, the bewitching queen of Alex-
ander, that Peri of the East whose beauty, like the
perfume of the rose, is remembered with pleasure long
after the casket which enshrined it is mouldered in the
dust. They wear a head-dress consisting of a lofty
white turban, shaped like a military shako, but still
higher, over which they throw a red or white scarf
that falls in folds down to the waist. As these ladies
are generally rather on a large scale, this head-dress
becomes them.
They attach a variety of ornaments to their hair,
which hangs in tresses over their shoulders. Unlike
most other Eastern women, they do not consider a veil
a necessary appendage to their dress. The rest of