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which hath at all times been granted them, one the Leg, another the Belly, and fo 
of the reft : and feeing they are not all agreed upon thefe pretenfions, every one 
ftrives to maintain his right by force, and there are always feme who out of too 
much Devotion to cat of the Camel, are excufed from ever eating more. More- 
over, there are two Fadions in IJpahan^ which always entertain great feuds betwixt 
themfelves,and that is the reafon that they never meet in a Body, as in a Proccffion, 
hut they fight till they kill one another : one of thefe Factions is called Aideri^ and 
the other Naamet Vllahi^ from the names of two men, who commanded fever- 
k ^f"^ Faftions a]iy in the two Villages, whereof Ifpahan confifts. Thefe two Villages that were 
^ ^aam^uUa- "^^^ '^^'^ another being encreafed, have made one firgle Town, and there is ftill at 
' Ifpahan a Gate called Verdekbt, of which the one of the two Leaves of the Gate 
belongs to one of the two Fadions, and the other to the other. But to return to 
the Ceremony of the Camel, the piece that can be got, is diiiributed in each quar- 
ter, every Family hath a Portion of it, which they Boil, and then eat with a 
great deal of Devotion. In other Towns, in ftead of a Camel they kill an Ox, 
but without any Ceremony i foi a Butcher kills it, and all the Vervifhes and 
poor people come and take every one a piece', befides every private perfon in 
his own Houfe kills fome Sheep, moft part of which he dilirîbutés amongd 
the poor. 
Differences in There is alfo fome difference betwixt the Perfians and T«ri!y, as to their Prayers. 
mlx"the^' Perfu i^ey call to Prayers but three times a day, to wit, fo foon as it is Light, 
Perfians aad Noon, and at Sunfetting, and they call no oftner on Friday : Nor is the call 
Tur^s. ' made from the tops of the Steeples neither, becaufe from thence one might fee the 
women in the Houfes » and therefore the call is only made from TerralTes. The 
lurks and Perfians make their ablutions both alike i but in faying their Prayers 
they have this difference, that the Smni hold their Hands one over another upon 
their Stomach, and the Schiai obfeive not that pofture : befides, thefe lafi in time 
of Prayer lay down a little gray ftone before them, which they always carry about, 
and every time they proflrate themfelves on the ground, Jay their Forehead on that 
The Stone of ftone, which is made of the Earth of Kerbela, the place where Hujfein^ the fécond 
tierbela. Son of ^/j/, was killed by the men of Tezidy his Tomb is there ftill, and that place 
is called after his name. Imam Hufjein i it is about four days journey from Bagdad, 
betwixt Tjgris and Euphrates : it is a very famous place of Pilgrimage amongft the 
Perfians, and amongft the lurks alfo, whither many people of both Sexes, and all 
conditions refort. They there take of the Earth, which they knead, and make 
little ftones of, and fell them all over Perfia. 
The death of This is the relation they give of the death of Hujfein, who was the fécond Son 
Hujein, of Jly. After the death of his Father he was called by the inhabitants of tlie 
Town of Coufa, who owned him for the Lawful Califfe : but Tezid the SuccelTour 
and Son of Muavias, and fécond Califfe of the Family of the Ommies, who was 
then at Vamafcus, having intelligence that Hufjein was upon his march to that 
Town, with all his Family, fent out a good Troop of Horfe to bring him to him 
alive : thefe men overtoo'k him at Kerbela^ and lo ftreightned him, that they left 
him not fo much as the means of getting water ■■, fo that finding himfelf in that 
extremity, he was willing to come to a corapofition, and offered if they would 
allow him free paffage to return with his people into E^ypts but they who would 
needs carry him anal all his Family Prifoners to Tezid, according to the orders that 
were given them, refufed him thefe conditions. He yielded not for all that, but 
having fulfered Hunger and Thirft for fome days longer, refolved, at length, to 
make himfelf a paffage by force, or to die in the attempt, chufing rather to die 
with Sword in hand, than to fall alive into the power of his Enemies. He therefore 
marched couragioully towards them, charged into the thickefVof them with extra- 
ordinary vigour, ard did all that could be done to break through : but his patty be- 
ing too unequal, he was overpowered by number, himfelf and all his men killed,and 
his Wives and Children made Prifoners, and cariied to Tezidy who treated them 
honourably, feeming to be grieved at the death of Hiijfeiii. They yearly perform 
a great folemnity for that death : I was there in the year one thoufand fix hundred 
fixty and five, and was witnefs to the Ceremony. It began the fifteenth of July, 
Aafchour or which was the firft day oi the month MîWraw, and that is thefe New Years day. 
death of ml Seeing that mournful Feftival lalfs ten days, they call it Aafcour, a wor^îhat 
feln. fignihes Ten in Arahick during thefe ten days, all tl;e Petfians are Sad and Me- 
lancholick. 
