n young, of
emigrating to the oases of the Sahara, which are occupied by
the French and traveling Arabs, where they give themselves up
to a life of prostitution. After having exercised this life
for some years they return to the tribe with a dowry in money,
besides an ample supply of clothes and jewelry,--the result of
their economy,--which enables them to contract favorable
marriages. This practice is so common in this one particular
tribe, and so much have they monopolized the profession of
courtesan, that the name of the tribe of Ouleds-Nails is in
Arabia synonymous with that of courtesan. These young women
dance every evening in the Arab cafes, and are at times
employed to do the dancing at Arab feasts. For this reason no
self-respecting Arab woman ever allows herself to dance in
public, or why the practice of both sexes dancing together is
not practiced in Algerian villages, as a man would thereby
consider himself disgraced.--Dr. Delange, in _Receuil de
Memoires de Medecine de Chirurgie et de Pharmacie Militaire_,
No. 105, August, 1868.

[14] "Tractatus, Alberti Bobovii, Turcarum Imp. Mohammedis IV olim
Interpretis primarii, De Turcarum Liturgia, peregrinatione
Meccana, Circumcisione, AEgrotorum Visitatione," etc. Oxonii,
1690.

[15] Michel Le Feber. "Le Theatre de la Turquie." Paris, 1681.

[16] "La Circoncision, Sa Signification Social et Religieuse." Par
M. Paul Lafargue, in the _Bulletins de la Societe
d'Anthropologie de Paris_. Tome x, 3d fascicule, Juin a
Octobre, 1887.

[17] "Circumcision." By A. B. Arnold. _New York Med. Record_, Feb.
13, 1886.

[18] Bancroft's "Native Races," vol. ii, page 278.

[19] "Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains, ou Memoires
Interessants pour servir a l'Histoire de l'Espece Humaine."
Par M. de P. Edition par Dom Pernety. Tome ii. Article,
Circoncision, Berlin, 1774.

[20] "The Family, a Historical and Social Study." By Charles
Franklin Thwing. Boston, 1887.

[21] The "Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains" and Virey,
in the 24th volume of the "Dictionaire des Sciences
Medicales," are very full on this subject, and for fu