South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  They go almost naked, wearing only shirts,
or other thin and loose raiment like mantles, having one arm bare.
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They Go Almost Naked, Wearing Only Shirts, Or Other Thin And Loose Raiment Like Mantles, Having One Arm Bare. Almost All The Arabs Wreath Their Hair In The Shape Of Horns, Which They Think Gives Them A Comely Appearance.

Departing from thence, I came in three days journey to the city of _Sanaa_ or _Zenan,_ upon the top of a very high mountain, and very strong both by art and nature.

The Sultan had besieged this place for three months with a great army, but was unable to prevail against it by force, yet it was afterwards yielded on composition. The walls of this city are eighteen cubits high and twenty in thickness, insomuch that eight camels may march abreast upon them. The region in which it stands is very fertile, and resembles Italy, having abundance of water. The city contains four thousand houses, all well built, and in no respect inferior to those in Italy, but the city is so large in circuit, that fields, gardens, and meadows are contained within the walls. This city was governed by a Sultan, who had twelve sons, one of whom named Mahomet, was four cubits high, and very strong, of a complexion resembling ashes, and from some natural madness or grossly tyrannical disposition he delighted in human flesh, so that he used to kill men secretly to feed upon them.

Three days journey from thence I came to a city upon a mountain, named _Taessa,_ well built, and abounding in all things necessary to man, and particularly celebrated for roses, of which the inhabitants make rose water.

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