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Show Her veil was tho usual shawl, fliia time of white. Also upon the matting sat the musicians, two drummers playing upon a single instrument, a peculiarly long drum. A woman sat at one end of it, a man at the other, both beating together, to-gether, using alternately the palm of the hand and a drumstick. To this music a number of women in gay dresses were dancing, two at a time, taking turns in flourishing over the head of the seated brido a pole some six feet long. We stopped in the encircling crowd to see what was going on, and had stood there but two or three moments mo-ments when one of the women who had been dancing suddenly threw herself headlong upon the matting, closed her eyes and seemed to go off in a kind of fit. The other woman ran to her, fussed over hor a little, and then drew back to await developments. Petitioning our dragoman to find out what this all meant, ho said she had been drinking too much of the native wine, and he interpreted in-terpreted the woman whom he questioned about it as saying that she "have de debbil in her." In a few moments she came out of the first unconscious condition condi-tion and began wildly to clutch about her. The umbrella belonging to one of our party being conveniently near she seized upon it, and only with the dragoman'" drago-man'" help was it torn away. We passed on, satisfied to assist no more in the festivities. fes-tivities. Cor. New York Commercial Advertiser. A Wedding la Egypt. " On the principal street we heard mu-lo mu-lo in the distance, and coming nearer found that a weuding was In progress. A matting was spread upon the ground, upon which the bride, a rather old and rather ..cross Jooking, Nubian cii'l., sat. |