This page needs to be proofread.
58
THE TRAVELS OF
and taking a nearer view of this ſolitary little manſion, reſolved on croſſing the river.
We gave our horſes in Charge to the ſahies or ſervants, who have always the care of them, and paſſed over to the iſland in one of the fiſhing boats that ply here. When we advanced towards the hermitage, which, as an object of curioſity, is much frequented by travellers, the Faquir or Hermit, who held his reſidence here for many years, came out to meet us: he wore a long robe, of ſaffron colour muſlin down to his ancles, with long looſe ſleeves, and on his head a ſmall mitre of white muſlin, his appearrance was venerable from a heard that deſcended to
his
