It was diMeult, however, to pick out more than ohe or two pilgrims for observation, for the bustle and scurry on board the Perseus defied description. Pilgrims rushed. to and fro, collecting their belongings, carting them down the narrow." gang-lank to the tender and rushing back for more while derricks rattled away unloading boxes of fruit, wicker sult eases, rattan chairs, and other articles, fon to the Alexandr!
Back in Kanst, where most of them come from, the pilgrims eat mutton, milk and noodles, and on the voy: age away from " Shanghai in the Asphalion and the journey back in the Perseus they were provided with rice, flour and mutton by the Blue Funnel Line. The ships also provided them with water, "but the pilgrims did their own cooking, 0 that their food should not be con laminated or spoiled in any way by the hands of the Unbelieved.
These Kans and Chinghai Mohammedens are unique in many respects, not the least of these being! the fact that although they speak in their own provincial dialect of Chinese for Business and bargaining purposes, they speak in Arabic for religious purposes and in Persian for social intercourse.
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