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THE TRAVELS OF





LETTER XXXVI.


DEAR SIR,

BEFORE we left Dacca, the Celebration of the feſtival of two ſuppoſfed ſaints, whom the Mahometans call Haſſan, Huſſen, was commenced on the firſt day of the new moon, and continued, with great ſolemnity, for ten days, The firſt day, ſeveral parties forming in different quarters of the town, aſſembled together in one ſpacious ſquare appointed for the general meeting, where they raiſed an extenſive canopy on eight poles, in the centre of

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