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Show Tortures Endured by Dervishes. Of a certain order of African dcr-Ishcs dcr-Ishcs n writer says: "They must be-lho be-lho they are Impervious to pain They ' come, then, on the occasion of tho . Dos.ih, to tho place of trial, raving from the effects of hushlsh, crushing and eating live serpents, gashing themselves with knives, piercing tholr flesh with daggers or spears, eating gluks and flio Tho elect Ho upon tho ground as clo?e together ns they can bo placed. In duo season comes their sheik astrldo a horse, to ride over tho prostrate figures. Tho recumbent re-cumbent wretches bear the wt-lght of liorbe and rider. Thero Is no deception; decep-tion; no placing of the horse's hoofs between the bodies. Each step It takes lands It upon the frame of a living liv-ing man, mangling and crushing It. The dead are kecretly burled, tho Injured In-jured curried away for treatment. Hut all are supposed to havo borno the trlM without hurt or pain." |