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Rh happy recovery, and filling her lap, at the ame time, With a quantity of freh fruit, as the emblem of plenty. When this ceremony is over they it down an entertainment erved up by the Hajams' wives, and prepared by women in more menial offices, Their uual fare is a variety of cates and weetmeats, The men, who alo congratulate the father, wihing every happines to his offpring, are, regaled much in the ame manner. Thus is the econd baptim celebrated; from which the third, which is olemnized on the twentieth day after his birth, differs only in, point of time.

The Mahometans do not perform the circurmion, or fourth baptim, until