soomalee

Updated: June 14, 2025

The Soomalee women are reckoned handsome, though in that respect they cannot compare with the Jewesses, their complexions being much darker and their hair coarse; they have tall, well-proportioned figures, and are as attentive to their dress and appearance as their poverty will admit.

Miss Emma Roberts - Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay