| Show WEIRD FUNERALS boston ff erald I 1 saving an occasional yah from the throat of one of the ibe tangle headed and wild eyed dervishes stalking along barefoot in the band not a sound broke the stillness of the bright october morning as aa our caravan says saya a writer in the london Stan standard darc moves toward the bridge over the holman hoi man river that leads to the town of khane kin the customs and sanitary station of the ottoman government about three hours P distance from the he persian penlan frontier it is a singular cavalcade we form too a veritable caravan of the dead for the true pilgrims among us ua are mainly defunct por per aiani whose remains are being conveyed direct 0 to o djou dj ennet net the gates oi at ba radise I at the feet of their great saint and aga the iman hussain at kerbelis Ker bela bels in front ana perched high up on the biggest camel that taftt could be begged borr borrowed awed or hired for the tee journey rides vat ur ts baush or swarthy wads AL turban ned the blue in his garments ear mente proclaiming him a said or or descendant of the prophet the prophet I 1 may remark in passing has a score of such to in every persian village he holds aloft the royal ensign of the empire of the sun and lion bearing the name of the shah and his own below it in letters of gold following him march the he or carriers of the deeds dead each at the head bead of a 8 long string of mules laden with the remains in trusted to them tue animals are led by char muleteers mule male and each bears bear two bodies one slung on either side where the daniera would ordinarily rily be the corpses when intact are carried in hermetically cloned cases but comparatively few of these are to be b found as a rule among these defunct pilgrims the expense would be too great so the pious persian who desires to give effect to the last wish of his bis departed parents watts until nothing of their remains is left but the skeletons skeleton which to Is then swathed in bandaged band baDda agee gee mummy fashion and handed over to the kesh to b taken to the gate of pare paradise which every good shute firmly believes is in at the exact spot where the fainted hussein la Is buried in berbela Ker bela far the greater number of the mules comprised comprise cl in our caravan tire are laden with such bandaged bones and swathed skeletons slung on each sides side the outlines lines showing distinctly through the wrappings as they swing to and fro with wish the measured pacing of the animals |
