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THE TORRID TRAIL TO MECCA.

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS VISIT SACRED CITY.

CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DARE NOT ENTER HOLY SHRINE.

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The annual pilgrimage is starting order" hard to maintain. Camels They must touch the stone, feel it, over the loeg cruel read to Mecca. bearing food and water, move alow-fondle it. It is covered by a mar- Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, y through the desert night for the velous mantic, made by hand. some in small independent bands, heat is too intense for travel dur-"W'Allah, Grant us all good things others in the main caravant, reing the day. Tired, dirty, hungry, in this life," marmar the pilgrims. making their way over the Arabian some bleeding from the physical desert to the sacred city. Some will hardships of the long march or from: drop dead, overcome by excitement, i wounds received along the way, the when they finally reach the holy of Kajjis" push en toward the all holies, the House of God. Others reward of the faithful, will die on the way from thirst, starvation, disease, or by the hand of the desert's brigand bands.''

The first of the pilgrims are at ready arriving in Mecca and at feast 250,000 of the faithful will eventually gather there, surviving their less fortunate brethren whose bones will be scattered and bleached along the torrid trail,

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grant us all good things in the life hereafter. Save us from the punishment of Ere!

W'Allah, W'Allah. He who goes 'round the Kaaba is like an angel who walks 'round the throne of Allah."

The pilgrim now goes to the welt mysterious, the Zemzem. The water

warn and gritty but the pilgrim drinks. When he sees the two green

stones near the Zemzem be breaks into a run. This serves to remind

him of Hagar's running about to Moslems. The pilgrim must have find water for Ishmael, father of all Ahis hair cut immediately after the running. There are a number of, hair. barbers ready to cut the Hajji's

ment..

"He who has performed the pli grimage has seen miracles and wonders. Allah is to be praised that my eyes have seen it." The words of Hajji Arin Al Khalifa reflect the feelings of thousanda of big countrymen, An Arab saves money for two purposes only. One is to buy a wife, the other to on the pilgrimage to Mecca. wife will bring sons who will as- sure the father immortality. Pi“ Two main pilgrimages start to grimage will make certain his Mecen, one from Damascus and the place in Paradise where there is other from Cairo. They are joined rating and drinking and all good

The Sermon on the Hill, by Moslems of all colours, Chinese things and where almond-eyed There are four more days of the and negroes from the heart of maidens wait upon you." A pil-pilgrimage and if the Hajj is to Africa, light skinned. Moslems grim is cleared of his crimes and be performed fully and properly the from the Caucasus, chocolate sins and cannot avoid being among pilgrim still wears the Ihram gar coloured Moslems from Arabia, the elect in Paradise, black Moslems from Abyssinia.

"Ho, Moslemories an old blindt Very often the Arabic spok pilgrim to a group of the faithful en by one is entirely unintelligible starting on the long and dangerous to his neighbour, which leads to road," spend freely on your way Give alms, Allah will reward you either laughter or fighting. Blood If they hak you little give much is absorbed easily by the golden If they ask you much give to over sands. Pilgrima come from Anatolia, dowing, Allah will reward you Kurdistan, Mesopotamis, Syria Ariers, water carriers, bread sellers here and hereafter." Baggage car- smaller pilgrimage starts from will give little and charge much to Suk-esh-Sheiukh on the lower the pilgrim but he willingly throws Euphrates. Nubians add to the his money on the road to Mecca. babel at Yambu, Indians and'

The Call to Prayers. Malays join at Jidde; other pil-

Finally the faithful approach the grims come from Yemen and Nejd, holy shrine. Out of the desert the Some come on foot from Tibet, pilgrim drops into Mecca. At meaning at least two months walk dawn he is awakened by the call to across northern India, Afghanistan, Prayer, a weirdly chanted Allah Persia, to join the trek over the Akbar! Allah Akbar! Ashadu an Arabian desert.. Others make part

la illah 'Allah." He washes be

No Christian or Jew dare enter of the journey by sea from Suez fore he prays. Bending low and or Aden Some of the less faithfaimuttering "In God's Name the Mecca. "It is not possible, habibi, use a railway for part of the joue and passes into the Sacred En- you to go to Mecca if you had one pilgrim enters the sacred mosque says an Arab to disbeliever, "for ney, but this is considered wicked by the strict Moslems. The further closure through a narrow gate. He hundred disguises. Allah would

Part of the Hajj is the visit Arata, performed on camet in complete silence. No one talks, no babel along the holy trail. On the one laughs, in contrast with the Day of Arafa all must wash from head to foot. At midday comes the essential part of the pilgrimage ; | the Sermon on the Hill.

pilgrima shout praises, scream, cry. Whether they can hear or not, the At the end of the sermon they rush down the Hill and start back tu their homes. At Mina they throw seven stones at the Devil, (May Allah curse him) and kill their

sacrificial lambs, Part is eaten and part given to the poor. Now all

prohibitions" become lawful ex- cept the use of scent or association with women, even one's wife. Last of all comes the Towaf ai, Ifadas, the Going Away.

a pilgrim walks, the better his wears a special pilgrim's garb, the penetrate them. If you had one, Thram garment reminiscent of the thousand, Allah would tear them duty is fulfilled. The routes tu Mecca are well known and the robe of the ancient Arabs, and re-off. And if you reached the gates larger caravans have an official com moves his sandals before stepping of Mecca alive one foot in, you mander and a military guard, but on the holy ground. sometimes even they are led into danger by the Bedouin guides, who get them out of the same danger for a certain consideration.

would fall dead." A trespasser dis- This the spot of which the pil- covered attempting to enter the holy grim has dreamed so long. The city, or actually found within its. House of God, the famous Kaaba, Rates, would be torn to pieces. where Abraham visited his son Half a dozen European travellers- Ishmael. A great black stone, its have entered Mecca, and lived, to worship dating back to the time write about their experiences dur The pilgrimage takes place durlong before Mohammed when stane ing the past century.

Caravana Trek At Night.

LANE CRAWFORD'S After a few days on the trail the thousands of excited pilgrims pass grimage has seen miracles sad won-

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