Far Off, Or Asia And Australia Described With Anecdotes And Illustrations ...
Far Off, Or Asia And Australia Described With Anecdotes And Illustrations ...
Mortimer Favell Lee
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A certain number of men agree to call themselves ^ brothers." These brothers help each other on eveiy occasion, and visit at each other's houses frequently They are not received in the guest-house, but in the family-house, and are treated by all the &mily as if they were really the brothers of the master. Digitized by VjOOQ IC CIRCASSIA. 158 A brotherhood sometimes consists of two thousand, but sometimes of only twenty persons. Bbligion. — Circassia, though beautiful, is an un- happy country. T...he Russians keep the people in continual fear; this is a great eviL But there is another nation who have done the Circassians still greater harm. I mean the Turks. And what have they done to them ? They have persuaded them to turn Mahomedans. The greatest harm that can be done to any one, is to give him a take religion. There are no grand mosques in Circassia, because there are DO towns : but in every little village there is a day cottage, where prayers are offered up in the name of Mahomet There can be no minaret to such a miserar ble mosque: so the man who calls the hours of prayer, climbs a tall tree, by the help of notches, and getting into a basket at the top, makes the rocks and hills resound with his cry.
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