 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1856 - 514 pages
...taunting comments upon the chickcn-heartedness of the men of Hind. It is considered a meritorious act to give away the victim without eating any portion...without removing them. The surface of the valley soon came to resemble the dirtiest slaughter-house, and my prescient soul drew bad auguries for the future.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1856 - 570 pages
...taunting comments upon the chicken-heartedness of the men of Mind. It is considered a meritorious act to give away the victim without eating any portion...without removing them. The surface of the valley soon came to resemble the dirtiest slaughter.house, and my prescient soul drew bad auguries for the future.''... | |
 | Ethnology - 1860 - 392 pages
...taunting comments upon the chicken"hcartedness of the men of Hind. It is considered a meritorious act to "give away the victim without eating any portion...without removing them. The surface of "the valley soon came to resemble the dirtiest slaughter-house, and my "prescient soul drew bad auguries for the future."... | |
 | Ethnology - 1860 - 400 pages
...taunting comments upon the chicken"heartedness of the men of Hind. It is considered a meritorious act to "give away the victim without eating any portion...goats; and no sooner was the signal given, than they feil upon "the bodies, and cut them up without removing them. The surface of "the valley soon came... | |
 | James Christie (M.D.) - Cholera - 1876 - 554 pages
...Kaabah, cut its throat ejaculating, ' Bismillah ! Allahu Akbar.' It is considered a meritorious act, to give away the victim without eating any portion of its flesh. Parties of the Takruri might be seen sitting vulture-like, contemplating the sheep and the goats ; and no sooner... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1879 - 576 pages
...taunting comments upon the chickcnheartcdncss of the men of Hind. It is considered u meritorious act to give away the victim without eating any portion...Parties of Takruri might be seen, sitting vulture-like, conteinplating the sheep and goats ; and no sooner was the signal given, than they fell upon the bodies,... | |
 | Georgiana M. Stisted - Exploradors - 1896 - 446 pages
...a veritable plague-spot. The Takruri might be seen sitting, vulture-like, contemplating the doomed sheep and goats, and no sooner was the signal given, than they fell upon the still quivering bodies and cut them up for eating. No doubt it is necessary that the poorer pilgrims... | |
 | Georgiana M. Stisted - Exploradors - 1896 - 446 pages
...a veritable plague-spot. The Takruri might be seen sitting, vulture-like, contemplating the doomed sheep and goats, and no sooner was the signal given, than they fell upon the still quivering bodies and cut them up for eating. No doubt it is necessary that the poorer pilgrims... | |
 | Samuel Ives Curtis - Assyro-Babylonian religion - 1902 - 364 pages
...218. "It is considered a meritorious act to give away the victim without eating any portion of the flesh. Parties of Takruri might be seen sitting vulture-like,...the bodies and cut them up without removing them." Cf. Burckhardt, Travels in Arabia, London, 1829, p. 276. ' Mrs. John Crawford of Damascus saw thousands... | |
 | Samuel Ives Curtiss - Assyro-Babylonian religion - 1902 - 360 pages
...to Al-Madinah and Mecca, London, MDCCCXCIIL, Vol. II., p. 218: " It is considered a meritorious act to give away the victim without eating any portion of its flesh. With respect to sacrifices slain for an incomplete performance of duty, Burton remarks, ibid., p. 140,... | |
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It is considered a meritorious act to give away the victim without eating any portion of its flesh. Parties of Takruri might be seen sitting vulture-like, contemplating the sheep and goats; and no sooner was the signal given, than they fell upon the bodies,... 
