Note 075
From The Invasion of Syria,part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

These women were of the tribe of the Hamyarites, who derived their origin from the ancient Amalekites. Their females were accustomed to ride on horseback, and to fight like the Amazons of old, (Ockley, vol. i. p. 67.)

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