The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-05

his neck, rubs that in too, repeating at
every rub and washing certain words. Next
one hand washes the other a stipulated
number of times-ever chaJtering his for
mula. This all goes smooth enough, al
though the ship, being lightly laden, rolls
considerably, and it is with difficulty that
he avoids touching any part of the ship in
trying to keep on his pins for now he Is
pure, clean and unspotted, so far as the OPP
Grafton has gone; and should his finger
lay hold of anything made unclean by an
iniidel or christian dog, he would feel him
self compelled to begin again. So he
bravely braces his back against the ships
railing, pours water on his foot five or six
times, saying the proper words, as the ship
rolls and he falls on his back very careful
to not touch TIE floor with the half
cleansed foot or his pure hands,
but he lays there ON the wet and not too
clean deck-awaiting another roll of the
vessel, in the contrary direction, so that he
may scramble again on knees and elbows
and at last stand on his only foot never
touching the ship or deck. 1t takes much
skill to get up and time too. He finishes
that foot and puts on his sandal-tO me I'M
clean, to him pure enough. Then through
more trouble he has both feet clean-and his
clothes dirty-of course now he
GIVES HIMSELF UP To PRAYER.
To do this he has to resort to astronomy:
he looks at the sun to guess the hour Of the
day. Now when he has guessed that, he
guesses whether the sun is east, south or
west: then he makes his deductions, and
spreads his carpet facing Mecca With his
eyes open and his hands clasped he seems
to pray out in reality, he sends his arms
around flying through space, grasp
ing fists full of air or wind
in his endeavOrs to stand upright
in the OrthOrdOX attitude; that
done, he boWs-gracefully enough-toward
Mecca, then he folds his legs under him,
mutters his prayer gets on his knees, and
bumps his forehead on the carpet, and goes
through the same several times, waving
his hands, when erect, like a mailman, as
he seems determined to not bulge his feet;
and necessarily to stand on a ship, like
that, he must do something with his arms
to maintain an equilibrium. This he goes
through five times in twenty-four hours.
SPEAKING OF HOURS,
can you, kind reader, tell me how the
Turks, Arabs, Armenians, etc, divide the
day! This morning l got up at 1919 o'clock
by the clock on the minaret Of the Serial
pronounced say-rye); at sunrise it is u
O'Clock, one hour after is l o'clock,
etc, twelve hours in the day, and of
course at sunset it is y o'clock of
night. Surprising the sun was up at
. o CLOCK, Dy our JlluG, l@i9 means . :0O AIN. |
So the Jews reckoned time and do yet Con |
sequently here, as in the time of our Savior |
men are not drunk at the third hour of the |
day (abOut 9 ann.
The great drawback to this reckoning is |
that we have short or long hours to the day, |
according to the season. and so of the nights, |
and the clocks as d consequence, are con |
tinually set back, orahead, to agree with |
the rising and setting of the sun. Con
corning other matters of this region Won |
will have more impaired anon.
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