The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-05

Night had come while these conversations
were going on. Eight or ten Uzbaohis had
Joined us at the hour of rest, after the evening
prayer; we started for the city in order TO get
provisions, and appointed the railroad depot as
our rendezvous. When | arrived there | found
that my Tartars had quite ingeniously broken
in plank fence, and entered q coal depot,
where they were busily engaged IN making
their fire. | did not attempt to preach to them
the theory OF the rights Of property, which
would certainly there have been very much out
OF place -, ...i,,o.o o,u,,o -,
the brink of the desert. My face was the only
white one in the midst OF sixteen bronzed faces;
my clothes we're clean, and my boots entire;
the people with whom l was we're bandtti, the
least strong OF whom would have easily knocked
me down with single blow of his fist; and these
pretended fanatics had on the morning seen me
coming out of the English hotel, the residence
OF unclean in6dels. None OF them uttered a hos
tile word against me. / said to them :-"Hadjim
(my pilgrim friends), / am going to Djeddah aud
TO Mecca; tell me your names, so that may find
you again." Banamadz looked at me attentively,
but without astonishment; then he replied
Thou art here our brother: thou wilt be SO
there. We are like the fingers; we separate our.
selves, but we still cling 10 the hand" Thus
speaking, he repeated Kdrdosky (brother), and
stretched out his two hands towards me, after
the fashion of the Turcomans. After having
saluted the whole circle, / threw away my
cigarette like the rest, and, kneeling down with
them around coal fire, which tllumined our
tarc songs.
Soon there arose a wild and strange concert; I
saw at q distance thousands of pilgrims in groups
around their FIRE, raising their arms to heaven
at the end Of each Hid,iR (the couplet of the
hymn. At the distance Of half league, / saw
alec light through the windows of the English
hotel.
The next morning the ragged Bahamadz, to
whom showed my firearms, greatly astonished
me. When ] showed him my breech loading
pistol, charged by the breech he admired it like
q man who understands the matter. Then he
proposed to buy it from me, and l was
at loss 10 discover whence this ragged
forth money, when he drew from under
his rags a smeary purse filed with Russian gold
pieces. Seeing my astonshment, he laughingly
reminded me that the tribe of the Tekkes was
the neighbor of that of the Yamandan, and the
Yamandan were wandering about oD the borders
OF the Caspian Sea, quite near the in6del Moscofs
(Russians).
When left the pilgrims, after having treated
forty OF them with meat and coffee, one of their
gIeybeards gave me his benediction in the
name of all OF them; then, after reciing short
prayer and saying Amen, while caressing our
boards, we went away-I towards the Egyptians
and the Turks, they towards the sea and the
ielucca, which was carry them on board the
steamer. promised to Bahamadz to give him
a pistol like mine when | should see him again
in the Hediaz.
/ began at the end, in speaking first of SueZ
before describing the Isthmus; but the pilerim-
age is the question of the moment, and Euro
reans rarely ever see it. 1t is not given to
everybody TO sit down around a Turcoman fire,
or to err between nomad camps. /, who did it
found no kind Of cholera there. The Sanitary
Commission will be very clever if they discover
ii more than did. From Paris the Hadjis are
not easily perceived.