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Updated: May 15, 2025
The village women hereabouts wear massive brass ankle-ornaments, six inches broad, and which are apparently pounds in weight. A deluge of rain during the night at Dilli converts the road into streams, and covers the low, flat land with a sheet of water.
The dazzling whiteness of the promenade is in striking contrast to the color of their own bodies. As the groups of women walk about, their toe-rings and ankle-ornaments jingle against the marble, and their particolored raiment and barbarous gewgaws look curiously out of place here.
The men of Mahmoudabad wear bracelets and ankle-ornaments of thick copper wire, and necklaces of beads. Nothing whatever is seen of the women; so far as ocular evidence is concerned, Mahmoudabad might be a community of men and boys exclusively. The plain continues level and gravelly, and pretty soon it becomes thinly covered with green young camel-thorn.
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