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58 and taking a nearer view of this olitary little manion, reolved on croing the river.

We gave our hores in Charge to the ahies or ervants, who have always the care of them, and paed over to the iland in one of the fihing boats that ply here. When we advanced towards the hermitage, which, as an object of curioity, is much frequented by travellers, the Faquir or Hermit, who held his reidence here for many years, came out to meet us: he wore a long robe, of affron colour mulin down to his ancles, with long looe leeves, and on his head a mall mitre of white mulin, his appearrance was venerable from a heard that decended to his