This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...relating to the origin of the name of Cashmere. " Allah shukur! He had no occasion for his water-finding lapwing, at all events," said the dissolute Cashmerian. " How, in the prophet's name, did so vast a multitude find room to spread their carpets, sleep or perform their prostrations, if all around was water? ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...relating to the origin of the name of Cashmere. " Allah shukur! He had no occasion for his water-finding lapwing, at all events," said the dissolute Cashmerian. " How, in the prophet's name, did so vast a multitude find room to spread their carpets, sleep or perform their prostrations, if all around was water?" demanded one of the auditors. " There was no need for using sand for their ablutions. They could perform complete immersion to their heart's content," observed the Cashmerian with a very profane leer. "Thanks to Allah! they did not find room," answered the first speaker. " If they had, the valley would still have been a lake." " Shulcur! shukur!" ejaculated the bystanders. "Exceeding fortunate was it that Solomon took it into his head to come this way." " Mashallah! that is a manifest truth," rejoined the other. " None but the hands that built the temple of Jerusalem could have worked so great a miracle. Seeing that there was not space for all his people to perform Namaz, Solomon summoned two of his most powerful genii, named Kaschaf and Mir, and whispered in their ears. Whereupon they extended their wings, and calling to their aid myriads of inferior jins, forthwith set to work upon these rocks, and clove a passage through them; so that before vespers, the whole of the waters were drained off, and the king's followers were enabled to eat their supper, and say their night prayer upon dry land. Thereupon Solomon called the valley after the two aforesaid genii, in order to commemorate the miracle. This is truth." At this moment we encountered a crowd of men and women, shouting, singing, and beating Such is another tradition respecting the origin of the name and draining of the valley, which geologist generally admit to have been a lake, ...
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