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DEAN MAHOMET.
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ration to one of the Prophets, repeating with his kindred, ſome prayers he had been before taught by his parents; after this pious duty is oven: he is again mounted on his horſe, and led to another chapel, where he goes through the ſome forms, and ſo on to them all, praying with the reſt of the company, and fervently imploring in the attitude of proſtate humility, the great Alla to protect him from every harm in the act of circumciſion.
After they had taken their rounds to the different places of worſhip, they returned to the ſquare in which the femiana was erected, and placed him under the glittering ca-
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