1 renurkahl^ how many stories are comnioii to Emope and Asia, and
2 that* not only -in works of imagiiMtioiiy but in &cts attributed to leal
3 personage and reoocded in history* One exMnple msjr snflfice out
4 of many which mig^ be brought forward. The stratagem of tnmmg
5 loose oxen, with toidies on th»r borm^ by lAich Hamiibal is said to
6 have eacaped iiom Fabius, is attrilyitfed by the A^^unms, with all its
7 particulars, to one of their own chiefs ; and ihit scene of it is fixed in
8 the neighbourhood of Heraut In the same manner, a vast number
9 of our jests are told In Asia, and half of Joe Miller might be disputed
10 belwuen <i the finetums Tom JOl^ew;* and ** s eeitain scholar,*'' of
11 some city in the east. - '
12 The foneiais of the Afghaima do not difier from those of the otiiar
13 Mahommedans ; a man in his last moments k attended by a Moolla^
14 wAiA admonishes him to repent of his sins; the sick man repeats his
15 creedf and appropriate prayers, and expires with his to Mecca^
16 proclaiming that there is no God but God, and that Mahomet is his
17 prophet When he is dead, the corpse is washed, wrap^ied up in a
18 shroud, and huried, after the usual prayers have been said \>y a M00I+
19 lah, and joined in by the numerous relations and neighbours, who
20 attend the funeral. If the deceased was rich, MooUahs ore empioyad
21 to re;ad the Koraun for some days over his grave. • • ■
22 The ceremonv of circuniciiiion is the same in all Mahommedan .
23 countries. It is attended with a feast and great rgoicing.
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25 Digitizeo by LiOOglc