furniture, women, children, and cattle. Keeping cattle, or cutting
M'ood, are the general occupations of the men. They wear the
common tnrban; a coarse cotton shirt, with short wide sleeves;
an under gown folded over at the waist; instead of a caftan, a
scanty waistcoat of yellow cloth, like the moors of Barbary, or
the greeks of the M o re a ; commonly blue trowsers; black shoes or
slippers; and a large goatskin, by way of apron. In one hand
they have a stout stick, and an ax or h atchet is stuck in their sash,
or carried on the shoulder.
RHODES.
T in s island, about a hundred and twenty miles in circumference,
and twenty from the coast of Caramania, received in ancient times
various names; but has long retained that which it most probably
derived fronr the grcek word rhodori, signifying a rose, a flower
still common in it. Pliny informs us, th a t it was said there was
e t larges, u n e ro b e de dessous q ui la serre à la c e in tu re ; a u lieu d ’un c a fe tan , u n e ve ste
é tro ite d ’un drap ja u n e , comme les Mau re s de Ba rba rie , o u le s G re c s de laM o r é e :
o rd in a irem en t des p an ta lo n s bleu s, des pantoufle s no ire s, e t u n e g ra n d e p e au de chèvre ,
en m an iè re de tab lie r. D a n s u n e m a in ils o n t u n g ro s b â to n , e t à la c e in tu re o u sur
l'é p a u le u n e h a ch e o u cognée.
R H O D E S .
C e t t e île, d ’e n v iro n c in q u a n te lieues de c ircomfé renc e , e t à h u it des côtes de la Cara-
inanie , e u t dans les anc ien s tem p s différens nom s, mais elle a depuis lo n g -tem p s c o n servé
celui q ui p ro b ab lem en t e s t d é riv e d u m o t g re c rh o d o s, leque l signifie rose , fleur
q u i y e st encore trè s -com m u n e . P lin e nous ap p re n d q u ’on disoit de son tem p s q u ’il
n ’y av o it pa s de jo u r d ans c e tte île où le soleil fu t assez c om p lè tem e n t obscurc i p a r les