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'Oh, come, we're not Mussulmen, said he; 'I declare, Richie, if I saw a church open, I'd go in and sleep there. Were you thinking of tracking the dog, then? Beer may be had somewhere. We shall have to find an hotel. What can the time be? I owed it to him to tell him, so I climbed a lamppost and spelt out the hour by my watch. When I descended we were three.
One day Hamet having inadvertently broken a bottle of ink over the Cogia, 'What is this, Cogia? said the others. 'Don't you think a few good kicks would be a useful lesson to our Hamet? 'Let him be. He got into a sweat by running, said the Cogia, 'and melted over me. One day the Cogia having mounted up into the pulpit, said, 'O Mussulmen, I have a piece of advice to give you.
Some, indeed, declare that previous disaffection existed amongst the men; others say that the troopers being Mussulmen did not like to charge against Dost Mahommed himself, whom they considered as their religious chief; but I think we may fairly attribute their flight to downright cowardice, as no complaint or cause was assigned by the men previous to encountering the foe.
For although a Jew, by the Mahometan law, cannot purchase slaves, yet by buying them-through Mussulmen, who share in the profits, from the Arabs who first seized the captives, the slaves are frequently kept back months in the Desert, being parted from one another before they can be ransomed.
Some idea of the number represented by these different sects may be derived from the following table: Asiatic Religions Buddhists 369,000,000 Hindoos 231,000,000 Mussulmen 160,000,000 ChristiansRoman Catholics 170,000,000 Protestants 80,000,000 Greek Church 76,000,000 Jews 5,000,000 Other Religions 200,000,000
At the first village at which they arrived they sat down near the first house, and Ned began to strike his staff to the ground and to shout "Hoo- Hac" with great vehemence. Although the population were for the most part Mussulmen, there were many Hindoos everywhere scattered about, and these at once came out and formed a ring round the holy man.
We may not look it, but we are true Mussulmen. If you doubt it, feel our muscle. We have it to burn. Desert the Mamelukes and be saved. The Pappylukes are here." On reading this proclamation Alexandria immediately fell, and Bonaparte, using the Koran as a guide-book, proceeded on his way up the Nile.
Our ancient aide-de-camp of Bolivar is a liberal English Jew, and boasts that, on Christmas-day, he always has his roast-beef and plum-pudding. I supped with him often on a sucking-pig, for the Christians breed pigs in this place, to the horror of pious Mussulmen.
XIV. That, in consequence of the aforesaid motives, and others pretended, which were by no means a sufficient justification to the said Warren Hastings, he did appoint the woman aforesaid, called Munny Begum, who had been of the lowest and most discreditable order in society, according to the ideas prevalent in India, but from whom he received several sums of money, to be guardian to the Nabob in preference to his own mother, and to administer the affairs of the government in the place of the said Mahomed Reza Khân, the second Mussulman in rank after the Nabob, and the first in knowledge, gravity, weight, and character among the Mussulmen of that province.
And they had not been sparing of their remarks about the slaves: "Fresh food for the stake fresh work for the torturers." "Pooh! They will give way and become good Mussulmen. Bah! Bah! Most of them do, and deprive us of the fun." That night Hubert and the young Alphonse of Poitou lay chained side by side. "What shall you do in the morning, Sir Englishman?" said young Alphonse, after many a sigh.
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