Note 17 — NI’AMAH BIN AL-RABI’A AND NAOMI HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Easterns, I have remarked, mostly recognise the artistic truth that the animal man is handsomer than woman; and that “fair sex” is truly only of skin-colour. The same is the general rule throughout creation, for instance the stallion compared with the mare, the cock with the hen; while there are sundry exceptions such as the Falconidæ.