 | Callimachus, William Dodd - Greek poetry - 1755 - 262 pages
...pilgrimage from their own country, and fubfift upon wild cellery, and a kind of °Jtrufalem anLhokes, which are very good food, with other herbs and roots found a little to ihe northward. Their bufincfs is to make expiation, not for their own fir.s only, but for thofe of... | |
 | Callimachus, William Dodd - Greek poetry - 1755 - 266 pages
...or fuppreffed in that place, it would rife in fome other. Here are generally forty or fifty of thefe poor devotees, who come on a pilgrimage from their own country, and fubfift upon wild celler)', and a kind of Jerufalern ank'hokes, which are very good food, with other... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1760 - 270 pages
...the flood, and they fancy it will 'all till the end of the world. Here are generally forty or fifty poor devotees who come on a pilgrimage from their own country, and feed upon a kind of Jerufalem artichokes, wild fallary, and feveral other herbs and roots. They pretend... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1797 - 340 pages
...believe it will laft till the confummation of all things. Round this temple are generally forty or fifty poor devotees, who come on a pilgrimage from their own country, and are charged with the expiation of the fins of their friends and neighbours, which, it feems, can be... | |
 | Frederika von Freygang, Wilhelm von Freygang - Caucasus - 1823 - 450 pages
...world; that if it was resisted or suppressed in that place, it would rise in some other. Here there are generally forty or fifty of these poor devotees,...pilgrimage from their own country, and subsist upon mid sallary and a kind of Jerusalem artichokes which are very good food, with other herhs and roots... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1884 - 1126 pages
...fire. Among others is a little temple at which the Indians now worship. There are generali}- 40 or 60 of these poor devotees, who come on a pilgrimage from their own country. A little way from the templo is a low cleft of a rock, in •which there is a horizontal gap two feet... | |
 | Great Britain - 1885 - 232 pages
...all dedicated to fire. " Amongst others is a little temple at which the Indians still worship. There are generally forty or fifty of these poor •devotees, who come on a pilgrimage from their own country. A little way from the temple is a low cleft of a rock, in which there is a horizontal gap two feet... | |
 | James George Frazer - Magic - 1914 - 346 pages
...Amongst others there is a little temple, in which the Indians now worship ; near the altar, about three feet high, is a large hollow cane, from the end of...they continue the longer time, in proportion to the number of persons for whom they have engaged to pray. They mark their foreheads with saffron, and have... | |
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Indians now worship ; near the altar, about three feet high, is a large hollow cane, from the end of which issues a blue flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, but seemingly more pure. These Indians affirm that this... 