But at last groups of women appear out of the darkness, bareheaded save for flower-wreaths and a few gold ornaments, their saris wound tightly round waist and shoulder.

For nearly three miles from Latron the road passes through a flat valley flanked by hills till it reaches a guardhouse and khan at the foot of the pass which then rises rapidly to Saris, the difference in elevation in less than four miles being 1400 feet.

Thus outwitted and outmatched the enemy retreated to Saris, a high hill with a commanding view of the pass for half a mile.

On the positions about Saris being searched a number of prisoners were taken, among them a battalion commander.

Men captured in the morning told us there were six Turkish battalions holding Enab, which is something under two miles from Saris.

The road proceeds up a rise from Saris, then falling slightly it passes below the crest of a ridge and again climbs to the foot of a hill on which a red-roofed convent church and buildings stand as a landmark that can be seen from Jaffa.

When we reached the parade-ground the scene was still merry and bright, for there Gurkha ladies were massed in their many-coloured saris, chattering for all the world like the parrakeets they resembled.

Eighth Voyage of the Company, in 1611, under Captain John Saris. VOLUME IX.

Saris, polycrat.

All the funny little women with their hair well oiled and plastered down, with iron bangles on their wrists to show that they were married, wrapped in their saris, so demurely chanting their lessons!

The dim interior of the hut with its sun-bleached mud floor, the two gentle brown-eyed women with their saris and silver anklets, looking wonderingly at G. in her white dress sitting enthroned, with her blue eyes shining and her hair a halo, made an unforgettable picture of the East and the West.

Nancy Wilson Ross (A); 2Sep71; R512551. Rebels in saris.

Nancy Wilson Ross (A); 2Sep71; R512551. Rebels in saris.

Men in pink pugareesin lemon-colouredin emerald green; women in blood-red saris, bearing shining brass pots upon their heads, all talking, shouting, jostlinga large family of monkeys on a neighbouring roof added their quota of conversationcalm oxen, often with red-painted horns and pink-streaked bodies, camels, asses, horses, strolled about or pushed their way through the throng.

The people too, their descendants, who crowd the road to-day, are remarkablethe men fine-looking, with beards brushed ferociously upwards, and all but the mere peasants carrying swords; the women, dark-eyed, and singularly graceful in their red or orange saris, and very full bell-shaped petticoats.

In the evening when the girls are sitting under the trees or walking down the long vistas with the level sunbeams bringing out the bright colors of their draped saris, it brings to mind nothing so much as a scene from "The Princess" where among fair English gardens "One walked reciting by herself, and one In this hand held a volume as to read.

RAB-SARIS, Master of the Eunuchs.