. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. II III If i iipllillll llll-lll! J||l|: III li lliiii1 ffl. I I i!!! . o M < QQ<<O QZ< LU a 05 o 03 a s§ to OeS o w S3. a£ ^ O £ LU I HI ^r? o LU I .2 *^ >- 5- ^ « g tn P a 03 ^^ m« b,^ -u c 5 1)- 3 .2,3 *->O o ~< a *j — a » P a£~ ° -kJtJ «5*P;p: ^ oo O 0 <a a)•p u THE CAABA AT MECCA. 197 vided by the Ott
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. II III If i iipllillll llll-lll! J||l|: III li lliiii1 ffl. I I i!!! . o M < QQ<<O QZ< LU a 05 o 03 a s§ to OeS o w S3. a£ ^ O £ LU I HI ^r? o LU I .2 *^ >- 5- ^ « g tn P a 03 ^^ m« b,^ -u c 5 1)- 3 .2,3 *->O o ~< a *j — a » P a£~ ° -kJtJ «5*P;p: ^ oo O 0 <a a)•p u THE CAABA AT MECCA. 197 vided by the Ottoman Porte. The floor is raised six feetfrom the ground ; and a door and window admit the double roof is supported by three octagonal pillars ofaloes wood, between which are suspended several silverlamps; and the gutters on the top are made of pure a small distance from this tower, on the east side, is thestation of Abraham, where is a stone upon which the pa-triarch is supposed to have stood when he built the Caaba,and which they assert still bears the traces of his is enclosed in an iron chest; and here the sect of Al Shafeimeet for religious purposes. On the north of the Caaba isthe white stone, within a semicircular enclosure, 50 c
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