p. 118

...Arab traders who converted the people to Mohammedanism. There must have been an unusual virility in the institution to have withstood this. Since women are ordered to seclusion and a position entirely subordinate to men by the priests of Mohammed, Polygamy follows to the extent of four wives permitted by the Koran was thoroughly established and the political power passed into the hands of men.
The thousands of fertile well watered lands which occupy the numerous valleys of this mountainous country are owned by the women and are inherited in the female...