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turquoise, amber, and cornelian ; and the back hair is ga-
thered in a queue, which is lengthened by tassels of co-
loured worsted intermixed with. shells, bells, and coins,
until it nearly touches the ground. Though not veiled,
like the Moslem women, with muslin or calico, their
charms are subjected to a much more efficacious disguise.
Before leaving'home, every respectable woman at Lhassa
plasters her faee with a black sticky varnish like raspberry
jam, which gives her an aspect scarcely human. The
practice is said at Lhassa to have been introduced some
centuries ago, in order to check the immorality which was
then rampant in the city. But it appears to be widely
diffused, and •is probably ancient. Rubruquis refers to
something like it in the thirteenth century. Grueher and
Dorville, who travelled through Tibet and Nepaul in
1661, say, " The women of these kingdoms are so hideous
that they are liker demons than human creatures ; for
through some sup rstition, instead of water they always
use a stinking oil to wash with ; and with this they are so
fetid and so bedaubed that they might he taken for hate-
ful hobgoblins." But tastes diffex, and the same unguent
which the missionaries represent as intended to render
the women hideously unattractive, or at least a modifica-
tion of it in fashion at Ladakh, Moorcroft appears to think
is adopted as a cosmetic. From all the fathers could
learn, the black varnish has not altogether reformed Ti-
betan morals. The strange. repulsive custom of polyan-
dry, or the marriage of one woman to several brothers, is
diffused over the greater part of Tibet, though it is cot
mentioned by Huc as existing in Lhassa. It is not con-
fined to the lower ranks. but is frequent also in opulent
families. Turner mentions one instance in the neigh-
bourhood of Teshoo Loombo, where five brothers were
living together very happily under the same connubial
compact. Moorcroft speaks of three meals a-day as the
practice of Ladakh, but this extraordinary symptom of
civilisation does not seem to he general. In Eastern Ti-
bet, regular meals are not in vogue; the members of a
family do not. assemble to dine together, hut " eat when
they're hungry, drink when they're dry." We remem-
ber to have beard a graphic description of the Tibetan
cuisine from a humorous shikaree. or native Nimrod, of
nur Himalayan provinces. " The Bhoteea folk," he
said, " have a detestable way of eating. They take a
large cooking-pot full of water, and put in it meat, bread,
rice. what not, and set it on the ire, where it is always a-
simmering. When hungry, they go and fish out a cup-
ful of whatever comes uppermost, perhaps six or seven
times a day. Strangers are served in the same way. If a
man gets hold of a hone, be picks it, wipes his hands on
his dress, and chucks it back into the .pot; so with all
crumbs and scraps, back they go into the pot, and thus
the never ending. still beginning, mess stews on." Of all
the quaint modes of salutation among men, that in
fashion at Lhassa is surely the quaintest and most elabo-
rate ; and we can fancy that it affords room for all the
Etraces.of a Tibetan Chesterfield It consists of uncover-

ing the head, sticking out the tongue, and scratching the
right ear ! and these three operations are performed si-

The Dublin University Magazine.

There are ten articles in the current number of the
University Magazine, of which the following may be
taken as a fair analysis. Three are essays on books, the
" Celto-Scythic Progresses," founded on the Bardic
of the Invasions of Ireland ; the " Birds of
W. Thompson's Natural
History of the Country ; and the " Administration of

Scinde," from Sir William Napier's History. There is
one oriainal story called the " Last Life in the Lease,"
and a continuation, viz., the " fleirs of Randolph Abbey."

There is a paper of Travels in Greece; a Translation from

the Irish ; a series of poetical effusions on the Season of

,s, treating of Lord Pal-