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Page 135
... cloth , and buried it : after which they departed . It deserves remark , that it is the custom with the relatives of the deceased , in this country , for the men to go about bare - headed , for the space of fifteen days ; but the women ...
... cloth , and buried it : after which they departed . It deserves remark , that it is the custom with the relatives of the deceased , in this country , for the men to go about bare - headed , for the space of fifteen days ; but the women ...
Page 151
... cloth ; on which they set cups , and a basin and ewer of silver , filled with water . Then I threw incense towards ... cloths of cotton , and spread them before the Beg : then they poured over him grains of wheat and barley , & c ...
... cloth ; on which they set cups , and a basin and ewer of silver , filled with water . Then I threw incense towards ... cloths of cotton , and spread them before the Beg : then they poured over him grains of wheat and barley , & c ...
Page 152
... cloth silver coin of the Bannât , which the women collected , and retired . Others presented to him dried ears of wheat , others apples , others plums , others white flowers and green branches of trees , others lemons and oranges ...
... cloth silver coin of the Bannât , which the women collected , and retired . Others presented to him dried ears of wheat , others apples , others plums , others white flowers and green branches of trees , others lemons and oranges ...
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afterwards Akhmil Arabic Archimandrite attended banquet Basil the Macedonian beautiful Beg of Moldavia Beg of Wallachia Beg sent Beg's bells Bishops blessing called calpack castle censer ceremony chair chaunt choir Christ church Clergy cloth coach Constantine Corta Cossack country Cossacks Crâl cross cupolas custom Deacons deceased door Easter Emperor entered Feast Festival gardens gate gold Gospel Grandees Greek hand handsome Heads of Convents Holy horses houses Iconostasis incense inhabitants Jews Khatman Akhmil Kiov kissed lofty Lord the Patriarch magnificent manner mass Matthi Beg Metropolitan miles Monks morning Moscow Muscovites Nicolas Oriental Translation painted palace passed Patriarch of Antioch Paul of Aleppo Persian person piastres Poles Prayer of Absolution present Priests Prince recited river robes round royal door saying SECT Silistria silver sprinkled standing stood Sunday Tabernacle Tartars thurible took town troops Turks Vasili Voivoda Wallachia walls whilst whole Zenobius ثم علي