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A Visit to the Holy Land

CHAPTER III
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My long and warmly-cherished wish to tread this most wonderful of the four quarters of the earth was at length fulfilled, and with God's help I might confidently hope to reach the sacred region whence the true light of the world had shone forth.
[Illustration 3.

Burial Place at Scutari.

ill3.jpg] Scutari is the place towards which the Mussulman looks with the hope of one day reposing beneath its shade.

No disciple of any other creed is allowed to be buried here; and here, therefore, the Mahometan feels himself at home, and worthy of his Prophet.

The cemetery is the grandest in the world.


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