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Updated: May 3, 2025
From that time Idumea decayed, and now has become an utter wilderness, the carved faces of the rocks still witnessing to the truth of prophecy, as they stand forth, lonely and deserted in their grandeur, though glowing freshly with the rosy marblings of the rocks of Seir. And He shall put a yoke of iron on thy neck until He have destroyed thee. Deut. xxviii.48.
The decent body-garb is a kamis, a nightgown of long-cloth, and wide, short drawers; the whole is covered with a sleeveless aba, or burnous, and sometimes with a half-sleeved caftan here termed 'tobe' garnished with a huge breast-pocket. It is generally indigo-stained, with marblings or broad-narrow stripes of lighter tint than the groundwork.
He leaned over the starboard light, neglected his lookout, and gazed far down at the swishing water which ran the ship's length at a lazy ten knots. The fathomless blue of the midday sea, with the white marblings from the bow wave, never ceased to draw Mac's gaze.
With its yellow hues, its livid marblings, and its sands which make it look somehow as if it lacked consistency, it rises on the whole horizon like a kind of soft wall or a great fearsome cloud or rather, like a long cataclysmic wave, which does not move indeed, but which, if it did, would overwhelm and swallow everything.
Spendius, surrounded by the Greeks, hid himself in one of the gaps; as he was afraid, he caused a rumour of his death to be spread. They were now hideously lean; their skin was overlaid with bluish marblings. On the evening of the ninth day three Iberians died. Their frightened companions left the spot. They were stripped, and the white, naked bodies lay in the sunshine on the sand.
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