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neither was he at all given to taciturnity, another striking trait in 

 the Mahornedan character. He often amused me with his account 

 of the hajje, or pilgrimage to Mecca, and confirmed all that is re- 

 lated by travellers on those occasions ; especially those ceremonies 

 and penances mentioned by Pitts, when the hajjes, or pilgrims, 

 enter into Hirrawen; a ceremony from which the females are 

 exempted ; but the men taking off all their clothes, cover them- 

 selves with two hirrawems, or large white wrappers ; " one they put 

 round their middle, which reaches down to their ancles ; with the 

 other they cover the upper part of the body, except the head ; 

 and they wear no other thing on their bodies except these wrap- 

 pers, and a pair of thin-soled shoes like sandals, their insteps being 

 all naked. In this manner, like humble penitents, they go from 

 Rabbock to the temple of Mecca, enduring the scorching heat of 

 the sun until the skin is burnt off their backs aud arms, and their 

 heads swollen to a great degree. It was a sight to pierce the heart, 

 to behold so many thousands in their garments of humility and 

 mortification, with their naked heads, and cheeks watered with 

 tears ; and to hear their grievous sighs and sobs, begging earnestly 

 for the remission of their sins ; promising newness of life, using a 

 form of penitential expressions, and thus continuing for the space 

 of four or five hours. 



The Hindoo temples at Zinore, though smaller and less splendid 

 than those at Chandode, are esteemed peculiarly sacred ; and some 

 of the sculpture and paintings, as the works of modern times, are 

 interesting, and superior to those generally met with. Among the 

 statues of the inferior deities in the Hindoo mythology, there 

 appear to be many allusions to Camdeo, or Kama-deva, who, Sir 



