Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-23

and walking with that half running
stride 3D. characteristic of them. They
rarely touch their heels to the ground. /
cannot regard them as models of grace, as
with head slightly inclined forward tall
slender and blithe frame enveleped in
that flowing robe of course Gotten texture
or In undress costume they stride speed
lily along.
| That admirable of American prose
| writers has depicted the nature of the
Asabs 80 faithfully that cannot refrain
from short quotation from Washington
hand will be against every man, and every
mans hand will be against him-Gsne-
sis XVI: IL. Nature had fitted him
for his destiny. His form was light
and meager, but sinewy and active, and
capable of sustaining great fatigue and
hardship. He was temperate and even
abstemious, requiring but little food, and
| that of the simplest kind. His mind like
his body was light aud agile. He
possessed the intellectual attributes of the
Scientific race, penetrating sagacity, subtle
wit, and ready conception, and brilliant
inauguration. His sensibilities were
quick and acute though not lasting. A
proud and daring spirit WAS stamped on
his sallow visage and flashed from his
dark and kindling eye. He was easily
aroused by the appeals of eloquence. and
charmed by the graces of poetry. Speak
ing language copious in the extreme.
the words of which have been compared
to gems and flowers, he was naturally an
orator, but he delighted in proverbs and
apothegms rather than in flights of
declamma alton, aud was prone to convey
his ideas in the oriental style. by apologize
and parable. Though restless and pre-
datory warrior, he was generously hospita-
BILE. He delighted in giving gifts, his
door was always open to the wayfarer,
with whom he was ready to share his
last morsel, and his deadliest foe, having
broken bread with him, might repose
securely beneath the inviolable sanctity
of his tent Such was the race from
which these Moors are directly descended.
The tenets of a strange and exclusive re-
{ ligion has much warped their sffectional
r nature, and effeminacy which is almost
> surely engendered by luxury of climate
9 is not without it's serious effects upon
these followers of Mahomet. | have not
= told you of Samuel leading us to Ma
hommedan Cafe. Up rickety stairs TO an
. Sx10 rosm carpeted with course mating
and q number of the dusky semi-civilized
creatures seated tailor fashion, are quiet
, ly engaged in conversation, playing cards,
; or singing with a two stringed guitar &C.
0 compartment. Scarcely observed we take
our seats, their want of curiosity is most
= surprising. The proprietor e hideOus
E creature) hands us a lighted pipe, the
: bowl of which is not large enough to admit
of my smallest fuger aud made of fright
red clay filled with kief, narcotic and
e nerve sootber having much the effect OF
J opium. Succeeding the few Whit. of kief,
comes tiny cup of delicious hot coffee.
2 We endeavor to restrain our laughter as
we glance at the rude ships and men red
e pictured upon the wall. But yet more
I l4ughable is the half frightful attempt at
q melody by blind man in the corner who
: drums away on an infant two stringed
T banjo, and jumps up and down the mu-
steal scale with movement of the head
. which tells us of the rapture of Mahom-
e medan harmony. Certainly this is a
scene for the study of philosopher. Are
they human For what? The desira-
e BILE and Objectionable singularly blended
2 in human nature. The devout and the ig-
] norant prominently cbaracterizing them.
o They might at least teach rationalistic
0 Germany lesson of blind faith. Their
h Christ, one of whom tradition says that
p when be was born, celestial light illu-
mined the surrounding country, and the
= new born infant raising his eyes to
= Heaven exclaimed. "God is great There
. is no God but God, and am his prophet
8 Heaven and earth were agitated at his
:. advent Lakes dried up, the palace OF
the King OF Persia shook to its founda-
ton and several of It's towers fell in ruins
Fables of his earlier years tell how mirac-
ulously he was endowed with speech at
his birth, and Arabian legends sly that
he could stand alone when three months
:. old, he must have been bow legged,) run
= abroad at seven, and at ten months ham
j. died with dexterity the bow and arrows.
/. These Mohammeda ans believe most hearti,
= " this and very much that is simply pre-
q posterous and abashing to human reason.
k When passing ty I have casually
!. glanced into their Mosques but dare not
n linger to observe in det Ill. The delicate
v tracery of the srabesque and richly tassel-
t lated pavements are ravishing to the eye,
!. and bespesk for them refinement of
g taste not reasonably to be expected of q
e partially besotted race, not however be-
7 reft of the hoary relics of long gone ages.
. I have been given in change Moorish
q coins bearing tokens of service for 600
Y years. These are very plentiful and an
9 English shilling will afford so many 10
+. exchange that one does not care to carry
. them. Usually we see a trader with 8
? leather bag strapped at his side. and thi4
contains his coin. Last evening I was sufi-
GENTLY convalesoent to go to the market
q place again. Twas crowded to excess and
more "ships OF the desert" (csmels) than
heretofore seen. Scott was with me and
he translated into English the speech of
wild snake charmer from the juugles
3 "Now:: people, you know that no harm
can come to Mahomet's chosen friends.
,. There is no God but God, and Mahomet
s is His prophet-as [ am of Mahomet."
e Here he dances wildly about woven bas
+ ket made from the reeds of some far off
= jungle, bis hair long and flowing in the
| i Hal &C