The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 101: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 95 exceedingly careful lest by some apparently trivial move ke precipitate a fierce contest. ‘Terry 18 amused to see the Perstans playing chess as they sit cross-legged at the public-house or manzil. Tt is:'a game much in faver all through the Orient, and eveh in the tchm-khans or tea saloons is played with exceeding gusto and skill. Upon the streets the usual crowds are seen, among them many fadjees or pilgrims wearing the dark-green turban which proclaims the wearer to have made the great yulgrimage tto Mecca. In Teheran Mohammedantsm flourishes like a. green bay tree, but other sects also claim a firm held, among ‘them the Guebers or Parsees, worshipers of fire and the sun, whose priests can be seen in many places performing their singular rites of worship,or reading the Zend- Avesta. which Zoroaster left fora Bible or Koran. erry learns more about some of their strange habits in the morning, when he is aroused from his beauty nap by the mst discordant sounds that ever strack upon the human tympanum. . Remembering the grewsome spectacle of the three wretohed robbers hanging head downward, he is positive from the nature of the sounds that some new punish- ment is being meted out to certain individuals who have transgressed the law. comicbooks.con