ST. DOMINGO. had been wrought since those of the Scriptures. "They will have us believe that either they have quite perished, or els have been wrought in hugger mugger and in great secret."-M. ROBERT CHAMBERS, Priest, Dedication to a Trans. of Miracles of the Virgin at Mont-Aigu. Antwerp, 1606. 401 And what in the room where conversation is allowed? Nich. Oh, that is my own room; there I make them talk about the news, and joke, and laugh, and grumble. Dom. And in the chapter-house (where confession is made and penance done)? Nich. That is my hell; there all that I do is undone! half an hour loses me the labour of years. And so Nicholas disappeared." What passed between the Devil and Do- 235.' mingo. "ONE night the Saint found old Nicholas in the dormitory, reading a written paper by lamp light with great glee. The following dialogue.took place. Domingo. Beast, what are you doing? Nicholas. I am doing my business, or labouring in my vocation, in which I always gain. Dom. Cursed be thy gain! What can you gain in the dormitory? Are not the religious asleep? Is there "HE was writing at night, and Scratch came like a great monkey to teaze him.. Domingo coolly called him to hold the candle, and let it burn down to the snuff, to it."240. One of the few good points in the great annoyance of the paw that held SAUTEL'S Annus Sacer is on this circumstance. ceram Tunc certè aut nunquam, Lucifer ille fuit." a will in sleep that can aid thy malice? "Dum tulit ardentem Phlegetontius histrio Nich. I gain much. I always disturb them by all manner of means; some I keep awake, that they may lie abed and sleep when it is choir time, or go there so sleepy as to yawn over the service, and then, if they let me, I do worse then. Dom. What mischief dost thou do in the church? Nich. More than in the dormitory: I make them go late and against their inclination, and with a wish the job was over. Dom. And in the refectory? Nich. Oh, there are few whom I do not get at there; some I make eat too little, so that they weaken themselves till they are unable to do their duty; others too much. Dom. APOLLYON teazed him in the shape of a flea, skipping upon his book. The Saint fixed him as a mark where he left off, and used him so through the volume. 1 So Kreesha in the B. Geeta. The Divine discipline is not to be attained by him who eateth more than enough, or less than enough; neither by him who hath a habit of sleeping much, nor by him who sleepeth not at all.—64. D D [Arafat, Kufa, and Mecca.] "ADAM and Eve met for the first time on Mount Aarafat near Mecca, so called because Adam, beholding her first from this mountain, cried out, Aarafat-I know her! There they built the first house, and the second they built at Kufa. There they dwelt seventy years, and Eve was delivered there of Seth, Cain and Abel. Then the Lord sent to Adam a praying-house, or chapel, of white pearl excavated, called Beiti Maamoor, which was let down from heaven upon the spot where the Caaba now stands, and Adam changed his abode, on the Lord's command, to Mecca. So the house on Mount Aarafat was the first abode of Adam, Kufa the second, and Mecca the third."-EVLIA, vol. 4. briel's mediation, to sow corn in the earth during his lifetime, and all the prophets received a similar art for keeping up this life. Adam was, as we are told, a husbandman; Seth a weaver: Edris (Enoch) a tailor; Noah, a joiner; Houd, a merchant: Saleh, a camel-driver: Abraham, a dairyman at Haleb, and afterwards when he built the Caaba, a mason; Ishmael, a hunter; Isaac, before he grew blind, a shepherd: Jacob, a speculative man; Joseph, in the prison, a watchmaker, and then a King; Job, a patient beggar; Shoaib (Jethro) a devotee; Moses, a shepherd; Aaron, a Vizir; Zilkefel, a baker; Djerdjish (George) a Sheik; Lot, a chronographer; Kaffauh, a gardener; Azeer (Esdras) an ass-driver; Samuel, the companion of the 72 translators, an interpreter; Elias, a weaver; David, an armourer; Solomon, a basket-maker of the leaves of palm trees; Zacharias, a hermit; John, a Sheik; Jeremiah, a surgeon; Daniel, a fortune-teller by the art Reml; Lokman, a philosopher; Jonah, a fisherman; Jesus, a traveller; and six hundred years after him, Mahommed, the last of the prophets, a merchant and soldier in God's ways, who according to the text, Militate in the ways of God, witnessed himself twentyeight victories. All these Prophets, having been taught the aforesaid arts by Gabriel, communicated them to mankind, and became the Sheiks and Patrons of those arts." [Occupations of Scripture Characters.] "GOD having created man in Paradise, from whence he was seduced by the insinuations of Satan, Adam was taught, by Ga--Ibid. Babelmandel. PURCHAS-WARD. "THIS streightness of the neighbouring people, and of those which inhabit the coasts of the Indian Ocean, is called Albabo, which in the Arabian tongue do signify gates or mouths and in this place and mouth the land doth neighbour so much, and the shewes which they make of willingness to join themselves are so known, that it seemeth without any doubt, the sea, much against their wills and perforce, to interpose itself in separating these two parts of the world. For the space which in this place divideth 403 of snakes.) In rocky places, in the mouths of some of these pits, stones are found standing; these stones they call the uncreated Shivũ-lingũ, and believe that by worshipping in these places they will quickly obtain the most important fruits."—WARD, vol. 1, p. 417. [Dervises of Erzeroom.] NEAR Erzeroom, EVLIA speaks of some Dervises "who go bareheaded and barewooden clubs in their hands, and some of footed, with long hair. Great and little carry them crooked sticks. They came all to wait on the Pashaw and to exhibit their diploma of foundation. The Pashaw asked them from whence their immunity dated, and the land of the Arabians from the coast of the Abexi (Abyssinians) is about six leagues distance. In this space there lie so many islands, little islets, and rocks, that they cause a doubt, considering the streight-they invited him to pass into their place of devotion. We followed them to a large ness without, that some time it was stopt, and so by these streight sluices and chan- place where a great fire was lighted of more than forty waggon-loads of wood, and forty victims immolated. They assigned to the Pashaw a place at a distance from the fire, and they began to dance around it, their drums and flutes playing, and they crying Hoo! and Allah! This circular motion nels which are made between the one island and the other, there entereth such a quantity of sea, and maketh within so many and so great nooks, so many bays, so many names of great gulphs, so many diversities of seas, so many ports, so many islands, that it seemeth not that we sail in a sea be tween two lands, but in the deepest and most tempestuous lake of the great ocean." -D. JOAM DE CASTROS ROLEIRO. PURCHAS, 1124. [Persian Botany Bay.] "THE Islands of the Red Sea were the places where the Kings of Persia used to send those whom they banished: καὶ τῶν ἐν νήσοισι οἰκεόντων τῶν ἐν τῇ Ερυθρῇ θα λάσσῃ, ἐν τῇσι, τοὺς ἀνασπάστεις καλεσμέ. νους κατοίκιζει ὁ βασιλεύς.”HERODOTUS. Thalia. iii. 93. Polymnia, vii. 80. The Hindoo Padalon. "THE Hindoos believe that many deep caverns or pits which appear to be unfathomable, or out of which water springs, have their origin in Padalon (Patulu, the world having continued an hour's time, about an hundred of these dervises, being naked, took their children by the hand, and entered the fire, the flames of which towered like the pile of Nimrod, crying O all-constant! O vivifying! After half an hour they came out of the fire without the least hurt, except their beards and hairs singed, some of them retiring into their cells instead of coming before the Pashaw, who remained astonished." [Literal Application of our Saviours Saying, "If thine Eye offend thee pluck it out."] "ONE grave old man who had a long grey beard I saw," says SANDERSON, "led with great ceremony out of the city of Cairo, (on his way to Mecca) who had but one eye; and I likewise did see the same man return back again with the same Emir Haggi, or Captain of the Caravan, and he 404 BUCHANAN-HASTINGS-ABDUL KURRCEM. had left his other eye there, having had it pluckt out, after he had seen their Prophet's Sepulchre, because he would see no more sin."-PURCHAS, p. 1616. [Eastern Apparition.] through his fingers, repeating with the touch of each, as I was informed, one of the names of God, while his mind laboured to catch and dwell on the idea of the quality which appertained to it, and shewed the violence of its exertion to attain this purpose by the convulsive movements of all his features, his eyes being at the same time closed, doubtless to assist the abstraction." "THAT same night there suddenly appeared in Dwaraka a woman of the very blackest appearance; she was also dressed-HASTINGS, Letters prefixed to the Bhag in black attire, and was hideous, with yellow vat Geeta. [Wonderful Book of Nijaguna.] "A JANGAMA named Nijaguna wrote a book which is held in great veneration by one of the thousand and one sects of the Hindoos. He received the necessary instruction for this work in conversation with an image of Seeva, in a temple on a hill near Ellanduru, and after he had finished the book the image opened and received him into its substance."-BUCHANAN. [Earth from the Tomb of Hussein.] "AT the distance of twenty paces from the south window of the tomb of Hussein, is a level spot where he was killed; and on the place where he fell is an excavation about the size of a grave, which is filled up with earth, brought from the place where his tents were pitched; this is covered with boards, and whoever comes to visit the shrine, pays something to one of the Kdemo, for permission to carry away some of the earth, which is universally known by the name of Khaks Kerbela (Kerbela earth) and has wonderful properties ascribed to it; and amongst others, it is said to have the power of quelling a storm at sea, upon flinging it against the wind."ABDUL KURRCEM. Place where Abraham, at the Command of Nimrod, was thrown into the Fiery Furnace.] [Spiritual Discipline of the Brahmins.] "THE Brahmins are enjoined to perform a kind of spiritual discipline, not, I believe, unknown to some of the religious orders of Christians in the Romish Church. This consists in devoting a certain period of time to the contemplation of the Deity, his attributes, and the moral duties of this life. "IN the neighbourhood of the city they It is required of those who practise this ex-show you the place where Abraham, by the ercise, not only that they divest their minds of all sensual desire, but that their attention be abstracted from every external object, and absorbed with every sense, in the prescribed subject of their attention. I myself was once a witness of a man employed in this species of devotion, at the principal temple of Banaris. His right hand and arm were enclosed in a loose sleeve or bag of red cloth, within which he passed the beads of his rosary, one after another, command of Nimrod, was thrown into the fiery furnace, at the foot of the mountain where the machine from which he was flung was constructed, and of which they pretend to point out some vestige to this day. Over the spring, which is said to have issued from the midst of the fire, a mosque is erected, with a large reservoir on the outside, into which the water runs; and in it are great numbers of fish, which will eat out of your hand. but no one is allowed to catch them. EVLIA EFFENDI. Adjoining to this mosque is the most beautiful garden I have ever seen in any part of the world."—Ibid. [The Grave of Saint Akyazli.] "AKYAZLI lived forty years under the shade of a wild chesnut-tree, close to which he is buried under a leaden-covered cupola. The chesnuts, big as an egg, are wonderfully useful in diseases of horses. Tradition says that this tree sprouted forth from the stick on which the saint roasted his meat, as he once fixed it in the ground. Round his grave are different inscriptions from the Koran, censers, vases for rose water, candelabres, lamps wrought in the style of Khorassanic work, and at his head a horse tail, 405 [The Sacred Handkerchief] "NEAR the Convent of Abraham (at Orfa) is an ancient cloister called Ishanli Kilisse, the church with bells, where the handkerchief is preserved with which the Messias wiped his face. They guard it with the greatest care, fearing lest some king, eager to enrich himself with such a treasure, should carry it away, and accordingly they refuse to show it. Myself having much mingled in my travels with Greeks, I begged of the monks the favour to be shown that handkerchief, but they assured me that there was no such thing in their convent. Having taken my oath on the Evangelist and on the doctrine of Jesus that I would discover to nobody the existence of their handkerchief, I was led to an obscure cave, on the outa standard and a drum. Those who enter side of which I left my servants. The cave this room are seized with trembling awe, and revived by the fragrant scent of musk was illuminated with twelve candles. They which they inhale. Out of the four win-produced from a cupboard a small chest, and dows you have the prospect of a blooming garden full of hyacinths and jasmins, of roses and of nightingales. The guard of this sepulchre is entrusted to the care of the Dervishes of the order of Begtash. Myself being affected with ague, having come to this place, I recited the seven vers es of the Lord's Prayer (Fatiha, the first Soora of the Koran), wrote a distich I was inspired with on the 1 and put myself under the green cloth covering the coffin. There I fell into a sleep, and awaked in full perspiration and restored to health by the virtue of this grave. "Saint Akyazli lived from the time of Orchan till the time of Murad II., the father of Mahommed II., the conqueror. One of his followers, called Arslanbey, was so much devoted to him, that the Saint used to bridle and saddle him, and to mount on his back whenever he went abroad. The saddle which is said to have served to the Saint is shown at the entrance of his tomb."-EVLIA EFFENDI, vol. 3. from the chest a box studded with precious |