Misc. Suhj. CXX. Toh VL No. 78. 



. SCENES OF TAURIA , FORMERLY CALLED CRIMEA, 



Fig. 1. Dance of the Dervis. °y the lman or arc V îest - 'annexed 



table exhibits such a scene in the same 



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JLJervis are mahome tan mendicant friars, manner as it is represented in the princi- 



who partly live in convents, partly shift pal mosquey at Baktschi- Saraj in Tauria. 

 about in the Orient, particulary in Turkey 



and Persia, preaching their faith and pia- Fig. 2. Buffoon in Crimea, 

 ying many superstitious tricks and juggles, The present table exposes to sight a 

 in order to deceive the people. Accor- jew of Const antinopolis , who, accompanied 

 ding to a singular rite they assemble by a rattling musick of gipsies, is playing 

 in a moschey , ( mahometan church) eve- his legerdemain ricks for the sport of so- 

 ry tuesday and friday , in the evening , me gentlemen , who are his spectators, 

 where, in presense of other devouts, they The dance being finished, he has formed 

 keep divine service, and then lead a dan- his garments like a puppet-, fastened upon 

 ce, which only consists in a rapid turning, a staff, on the left arm, with which he 

 One after the other falls into a kind of keeps a foolish discourse. The dumb pup- 

 swoon , out of which Jie is directly rou- pet only answers by blows, to the ut- 

 sed by few words whispered into his ear most delight of the spectators. 



