A Guide Along the Danube, From Vienna to Constantinople, Smyrna, Athens, the ...
A Guide Along the Danube, From Vienna to Constantinople, Smyrna, Athens, the ...
Claridge, R. T
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o2 Digitized by VjOOQIC 100 TRE TURKISH CHARACTER. to Others, reterrmg the right of demanding the^i back a^in at pleasure. He does not eondescend to marry y but chooses from his haorem seven &^ vourites. Others can marry four wives, and have as many concubines as their means will justify them in taking, all children being equally legitimate. The women are consigned to har^ns, excluded from all but female associates or the nearest rela* tions, others not being permitted even to mention their nam...es. They never appear in the streets without veils and loose robes, that mask their face and figure. They are not permitted to join the men in their repasts, nor. tO' enter the mosques ; it being believed that they have no souls, and that they were created solely to minister to the pleasures of the opposite sex. As no female is allowed to act as savant, but expects to have slaves of her own, the society of Turkish women is beyond the reach of the poor ; a circumstance which produces a host of evils.
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