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Updated: May 21, 2025
High-capped Persians, and Turks whose turbans were reduced to faded fezes, marched in the van, followed closely by a rabble of Takruris, ragged, moneyless, living upon meat of abandoned animals. Last of all were the sick and dying, who yet persisted in dragging their fainting limbs along as best they could. Might they but reach the Holy City!
One asking alms with a wire run through his cheek. Not uncommon. One hundred thousand warriors were now assembled. In countries where the whole population is armed, a vast military force is soon assembled. Some high-capped Tatar with despatches. Each day some warlike Atabek, at the head of his armed train, poured into the capital of the caliphs. It is the Sabbath etc.
The plain of Hamadan was covered with tents, the streets were filled with passing troops, the bazaars loaded with military stores; long caravans of camels laden with supplies every day arrived from the neighbouring towns; each instant some high-capped Tatar with despatches rushed into the city and galloped his steed up the steep of the citadel.
The congregation joined in chorus, devout but unintelligent; for the Word, written in ancient Chinese, is as obscure to the ordinary Japanese worshipper as are the Latin liturgies to a high-capped Norman peasant-woman.
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