A Stone
Partition Is Built Across The Tent, Near The Entrance:
I found in every
tent that the women had uniformly possession of the greater half to the
left of
The door; the smaller half to the right hand side is
appropriated to the men, and there is also a partition at H [figure not
included], which generally serves as a stable for a favourite horse of
the master or of one of his sons. The rest of the horses and the cattle
are kept in caverns, which abound in these calcareous hills, or in
smaller huts built on purpose. Besides those who live in tents, many of
the Turkmans, especially in the plain, live in large huts fifteen feet
high, built and distributed like the tents, but having, instead of a
tent covering, a roof of rushes, which grow in great abundance on the
banks of the Afrin. The women’s room serves also as the kitchen; there
they work at their looms, and strangers never enter: unless, when, as I
was told, the Turkmans meaning to do great honour to a guest, allow him
a corner of the Harem to sleep in quiet among the women. The men’s
apartment is covered with carpets, which serve as beds to strangers and
to the unmarried members of the family; the married people retire into
the Harem. The Turkmans have also a kind of portable tent made of wood,
like a round bird cage, which they cover with large carpets of white
wool.
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