The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . his grandson, Mohammed Taki. Both fill a martyrsgrave. The former was poisoned by Haroun-al-Raschid,and the latter by the relatives of the Caliph their tomb is a grand mosque, surmounted withtwo domes completely covered with beaten gold, the giftof the great Nadir Shah. The four tall and graceful min-arets, ornamented with colored tiles inlaid on their sur-face, form, with the golden domes, a group of imposingsplendor. Tlie exterior of the w\alls of the mosque iscovered with sayings fi
The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . his grandson, Mohammed Taki. Both fill a martyrsgrave. The former was poisoned by Haroun-al-Raschid,and the latter by the relatives of the Caliph their tomb is a grand mosque, surmounted withtwo domes completely covered with beaten gold, the giftof the great Nadir Shah. The four tall and graceful min-arets, ornamented with colored tiles inlaid on their sur-face, form, with the golden domes, a group of imposingsplendor. Tlie exterior of the w\alls of the mosque iscovered with sayings fiom the Koran, inlaid in mosaic 190 THRONES AND PALACES OF work. From tbe entrance to the spacious court to tliegrand portal of the mosque is a tesselatecl pavement;and around this court a bazaar was held, furnished withchaplets, rosaries, and other trinkets, to aid the faithfulin their devotions. The narrow streets leading to themosque were thronged with pilgrims from Thibet, Cash-mere, Afghanistan, and Persia, who were soldier-saints,and as ready to draw their splendid swords to spread their. TOMBS OP KATHIMAIN. faith as were their fathers. They watched our movementswith a hateful eye, and made remarks calculated to pro-voke a quarrel. Theirs is a militant, but not a triumph-ant, faith. Their weapons are carnal, but not kill a Christian is the most acceptable act of worsliipthey can perform. They are most fanatical and violentwhen on a religious pilgrimage, or near a sacred there were unmistakable signs of an outburst of theirfanaticism, we deemed it the better 2)art of valor to visit BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 191 the bazaars, where the love of money is mightier thanthe love of religion, and where a Christian feels himselfcomparatively safe, even among fanatical Moslems, whilehe has money to spend. On our return, we passed the tomb of Zobeida, the fa-vorite wife of the Caliph Haroun-el-Raschid, whose name
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