Page:The Travels of Dean Mahomet.djvu/271

22 provinces. Hither the pious natives flock, to betow their charity on thee holy men, and think it a kind of religious humanity, highly acceptable to their God, to confer their benefactions on his faithful ervents.

From the prayers of the Faquirs; great bleings are expected, and many calamities thought to be averted, as they obtain the reputation of ainted martyrs, by torturing their Bodies, and uffering a variety of punihments, by way of penance; during this earthly pilgrimage. Some pierce their fleh with pears, and drive daggers through their hands; others carry on their palms, for a length of time, burning veels full of