W
Wagons as a means of travelling, [25]
Wailers, professional, at funerals, [248]
Walling-up as a capital punishment, [138]
Water-supply, the, [48]
Weaving at Mosul, [183]
“Weavers,” children employed as, [44]
Wedding, a, [97]
—— among the Parsees, a, [123]
Weddings, marriage portions, [244];
negotiations, [245];
preliminary feasting, [247]
Wheat and barley, the cultivation of, [49]
Women, curiosity of the, [62];
characters, [84];
anderoons, [68], [87];
costume, [95];
as beauty specialists, [104];
cruel and revengeful nature of, [105];
Parsee, [122];
hysteria amongst, [161];
Arab, [191]
—— of Mosul, the, [219];
types, [219], [220];
aids to beauty, [221];
hopeless condition of, [223];
want of love in the life of, [230];
facility of divorce, [232];
and Paradise, [235];
Naseeb, [235];
fighting amongst, [241];
the hammam, [242];
never know their age, [276];
superstitious, [277]