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TROUPE OF ITINERANT DANCERS PERFORMING TO THE MUSIC OF TOMTOMS IN THE STREETS OF ADEN The amusements of the Arabs and Somalis are none of a violent character, as might be judged from the nature of the people themselves. Dancing, perhaps, requires the greatest amount of physical exertion. Some Arab women prefer this rough-and-tumble existence on the streets to the monotony of the harem, and the profession is the resort of the abandoned wives of Somalis who, having had their fill of a strange people, forsake them and return to their native land |