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5 tinction between Hindoos and Mussulmans. The
6 poems of Nanuk are celebrated. He traversed
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12 k /■..Vv. authors, visited Mecca, He appears to have beer?
13 a match for the Moollahs, as the following anec-
14 Answcr 10 the dote, related by Malcolm, will show :—•“ How
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20 priest, “ turn thy feet towards the House of God ?”
21 “ Turn them, if you can,” said the pious but in¬
22 dignant. Nanuk, ,f in a direction where the House
23 of God is not.”
24 Nanuk did not deny the mission of Mahomed,
25 though he reprobated his oppressive cruelty and
26 intolerance to the Hindoos, and, above all, the
27 slaughter of the cow ;• for these crimes he believed
28 the prophet had justly died. Nanuk considered
29 himself a successor to Mahomed; and that he was
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35 destined to restore, by his example, precepts, and
36 writings, the whole of mankind to the worship of
37 God. He urged the Hindoos and Mussulmans
38 to read their Scriptures, and obey the doctrines
39 taught there. But while inculcating faith in one
40 Supreme Deity, and offering their praises to Him
41 alone, he did not forget that good works were
42 equally incumbent; and that to these tenets of faith
43 and works they should look for mercy, and it mat¬
44 tered little to what caste they belonged.
45 Manuk** sub- The following extract from Malcolm’s work will
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48 and of the worthlessness of men:— “A hundred
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51 thousand of Mahomeds,” said Nanuk, “ a million of
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