Stories of persons and places in Europe . wisethey keep on until they drop down. Another sect called the howling dervishes perform their religious cere-monies in a more terrible manner. They begin by prostra-ting themselves upon theearth, with their foreheadsin the dust. The priestcommences a long, low wail,which is echoed by the wholeband, and then they begin torock their bodies back andforth. Soon they grow excit-ed. Their eyes shine, frothgathers upon their lips, theirfaces are fearfully contort-ed, while the perspirationrolls down in drops. Each moment their cryof Allan-hon! is re-peated w
Stories of persons and places in Europe . wisethey keep on until they drop down. Another sect called the howling dervishes perform their religious cere-monies in a more terrible manner. They begin by prostra-ting themselves upon theearth, with their foreheadsin the dust. The priestcommences a long, low wail,which is echoed by the wholeband, and then they begin torock their bodies back andforth. Soon they grow excit-ed. Their eyes shine, frothgathers upon their lips, theirfaces are fearfully contort-ed, while the perspirationrolls down in drops. Each moment their cryof Allan-hon! is re-peated with greater fury,until their words give wayto mere frantic roarings. Astheir excitement and furyincreases some roll upon thefloor in death-like convul-sions. The others toss theirarms in the air like priest regulates thechant by clapping his hands to increase its speed, or demanding by gestures that itin this way the wailing and howling, and cry of Allah-hon!up until the strongest fall into convulsions, or sob MTJSSELMAN WOMAN. go slower iscry Andkeptfrom \ CHAPTER XVIII. GREECE. Greece is sacred soil to all students of the past. Upon it rose the mostwonderful civilization that the world ever saw. There has never lived arace of people gifted with such wonderful imagination, and such a love ofbeauty as the ancient Greeks. They have been the worlds teacher in phil-osophy, in literature, and in nearly all branches of learning, in art and inarchitecture for hundreds of years. The old Greeks grew up amid scenes of great natural beauty, and theirliterature shows that they appreciated it. They are ever speaking of thesighing of the trees in the wind ; of the rush and splashing of the sea on thebeach; of the trinkling of fountains; of the chirp of grasshoppers in thesun; of the cooing of doves, the hum of bees, the barking of dogs, the low-ing of kine; of the neighing of the war-horse as he bounds and plungesover stream and chasm. Mount Parnassus.—Though
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