"I thought the dead had peace, but it is not so;
To have no peace in the grave, is that not sad?"
[23] The prayers for the dead have no Rukaat or bow as in other orisons.
[24] The general Moslem name for the African coast from the Somali
seaboard southwards to the Mozambique, inhabited by negrotic races.
[25] The Moslem rosary consists of ninety-nine beads divided into sets of
thirty-three each by some peculiar sign, as a bit of red coral.
[Illustration] The consulter, beginning at a chance place, counts up to
the mark: if the number of beads be odd, he sets down a single dot, if
even, two. This is done four times, when a figure is produced as in the
margin. Of these there are sixteen, each having its peculiar name and
properties. The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of
vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity.
The Arabs call it El Baml, and ascribe its present form to the Imam Jaafar
el Sadik; amongst them it is a ponderous study, connected as usual with
astrology. Napoleon's "Book of Fate" is a specimen of the old Eastern
superstition presented to Europe in a modern and simple form.
[26] In this country, as in Western and Southern Africa, the leopard, not
the wolf, is the shepherd's scourge.
![First Footsteps In East Africa; Or, An Exploration Of Harar. By Richard F. Burton
- This progression is admirably wrought out in Professor
Max Muller's Rig Veda Sanhita.
[22] The Moslem corpse is partly sentient - Page 79](../images/travel.jpg)
