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fess I cannot help feeling something like shame at 

 the appearance of the bottle ; it is a point wherein 

 I must allow the Mahomedans can taunt us. The 

 presence of the dogs, too, is objectionable, though at 

 one time I was very fond of the canine genus. Little 

 Beerdee came into my tent, very much distressed, the 

 evening of the first day after our arrival, and after 

 many times muttering "Tobah, Tobah !" oh, "repent- 

 ance, repentance ! " he informed me that they were 

 fattening some of the unclean animals with the inten- 

 tion of devouring them ! Pah ! " There was a woman 

 there too," said he ; " she had her head, face, and neck 

 uncovered, and she wears no breeches." Upon my 

 inquiring how he had ascertained the last fact, he 

 said, " She was moving about, and I saw up to her 

 knee ! " This shameless person went up to the unclean 

 animal and gave it bread ! She patted its head ! 

 faugh ! ! and stroked its sides ! ! Lahole o la Kowate 

 Istukfaroollah "Disgrace and pollution ! may Heaven 

 defend us!" "Well, Beerdee, what did you do?"- 

 " I only fled ; before this I should not have minded 

 going with you, but now, for God's sake, give me 

 my despatches and let me depart." It was use- 

 less to argue that the unclean animal was the work 

 of God, that it was only from its disreputable life 

 to be objected to, but that here he himself had seen 

 it fed well and cleanly. "For God's sake let me 

 depart," was his only answer, and in a whisper, 

 " They worship images! I saw it, all of us saAv it !" 



