[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 3.5.5 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 3.5.5 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 3.5.5 - **Language:** English ### [3.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.5.5) He said that in Ethiopia there are few men who do not keep several wives; nor was he ashamed to confess that he himself had two, besides the wife to whom he was legally married, and who resided in Aleppo. The Ethiopian women, he observed, do not hide themselves as in the Indies among the Mahometans and even the Gentiles; and nothing is more common than to see females of the lower ranks, whether single or married, bond or free, mingled together, day and night, in the same apartment; the whole of them perfectly unacquainted with those feelings of jealousy so prevalent in other nations. The women, or wives of grandees, are at no great pains to conceal their attachment to any handsome cavalier, whose house they enter without fear or scruple. If I had visited Ethiopia, I should have been compelled, they told me, to marry. A few years ago, a wife was forced upon an European, a Padry, who passed for a Greek physician; and it is curious enough that the woman whom they obliged him to wed was the same that he designed for one of his sons. - [Previous: 3.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.5.4) - [Next: 3.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.5.6) - [Up: 3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.5.5) · Pramāṇa