CHAPTER XV

105. 17. ces chasseresses rusées . . . (to the end of the chapter). Mohammedans hâve the réputation of speaking very badly of women. Mohammed himself says in the Koran IV: " Mcn are superior to women on account of the qualitics with which God bas gifted the onc above the other, and on account of the outlay they make from tluir substance for them," but hc ought not to be made rcsponsible for the sayings which the Hooks of Tradition attribute to him, such as: "A bad omen is found in a woman, a house, or a horse," or: "I [God] hâve not left any calamity more detrimcntal to mankind lhan women," and so forth. Scveral writers of bigb standing hâve in récent years protested against the réputation of the Arabs as ill-treating women and even hâve proposed them as examples to Christians for the respect and kindness they show to the fair scx.

106. o. Candahar, or Kandahar, a province in southern Afghanistan which is a country east of Persia.