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FINAL DEPARTURE FROM ATHENS. lb'7
abstinence from sunrise to sunset. Travellers, and sick persons,
are excepted from the performance of this austere duty; but some,
like Ibrahim, are too scrupulous to avail themselves of this indulgence.
Wealthy Musulmans turn night into day during Ramazan, as they
eat several times from sunset to sunrise, and pass the night in re-
velling and feasting, as a compensation for the mortifications of the
day. But, though Ibrahim was sometimes on horseback during the
entire da}r, his regard for the rules of the Mohamedan ceremonial
was so undcviating, that no consideration could ever induce him to
take any refreshment till the sun had gone down, though I have
seen him parched with thirst, and faint with hunger and fatigue.
He took a second moderate meal before break of day, and when 1
joked him upon the subject, his answer was, " Let every man follow
the precepts of his religion: If I did not fast in Ramazan I should
be a bad Musulman, and you know I am not a Jew, nor a Christian ;
you would therefore have with you a man without religion, and con-
sequently without that fear of Allah which prevents us from com-
mitting dishonest and wicked actions." Such sentiments in a com-
mon peasant are not often met with. His arms consisted in a
topaike, or long gun, two long silver-hilted pistols, and a knife,
or khandgear. I was also attended by Georgio Statin, a Greek
servant, and the agoziates to whom the horses belonged.
abstinence from sunrise to sunset. Travellers, and sick persons,
are excepted from the performance of this austere duty; but some,
like Ibrahim, are too scrupulous to avail themselves of this indulgence.
Wealthy Musulmans turn night into day during Ramazan, as they
eat several times from sunset to sunrise, and pass the night in re-
velling and feasting, as a compensation for the mortifications of the
day. But, though Ibrahim was sometimes on horseback during the
entire da}r, his regard for the rules of the Mohamedan ceremonial
was so undcviating, that no consideration could ever induce him to
take any refreshment till the sun had gone down, though I have
seen him parched with thirst, and faint with hunger and fatigue.
He took a second moderate meal before break of day, and when 1
joked him upon the subject, his answer was, " Let every man follow
the precepts of his religion: If I did not fast in Ramazan I should
be a bad Musulman, and you know I am not a Jew, nor a Christian ;
you would therefore have with you a man without religion, and con-
sequently without that fear of Allah which prevents us from com-
mitting dishonest and wicked actions." Such sentiments in a com-
mon peasant are not often met with. His arms consisted in a
topaike, or long gun, two long silver-hilted pistols, and a knife,
or khandgear. I was also attended by Georgio Statin, a Greek
servant, and the agoziates to whom the horses belonged.