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dervishes that you have read about in books ; and this is 
their temple—-a wild, half-savage, Oriental place, full of novel 
sights and sounds. At last the waltz is concluded ; the 
priests retire to their places, put on their cloaks, and double 
themselves up in little knots again ; and, after another parade 
and the same profound ceremony of bowing before the patriarch 
they slowly retire ; the audience follows their example ; and 
thus ends the devout exhibition of the dancing dervishes. 
There is another sect, called the howling dervishes, who 
hold their exhibitions over at Scutari, on the Asiatic side. 
On my return from the Mount of Chamlula one day, I step¬ 
ped in to see them, in company with my Portuguese friends 
Dr. Mendoza and the Madam. The temple or house of wor¬ 
ship is much the same as that of the dancing dervishes. 
Here we had to pay a small fee of a few piasters for admis¬ 
sion, the ceremony being considered more attractive than that 
of the dancers. Nothing was said about our shoes, and we 
were ushered at once into the gallery allotted to Christian 
spectators. The exhibition had just commenced. Thirty or 
forty young howlers, from six years of age up to twenty-five, 
were ranged around the outer circle. At the head stood the 
chief priest, and in different parts of the hall the elders and 
common priests. The old patriarchs, who were unable to 
