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[ This is a circumstance which is said to have really happened.]
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[ I.e. Mecca, to which all Mohamedans turn in their prayers.]
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[ Khon-khor, literally "blood-drinker"; so the Sultan of Roum, or Turkey, is styled in Persia.]
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[ The kabob shops at Constantinople are eating-houses, where, at a moment's notice, a dish of roast meat, and small bits of meat done on skewers, are served up to whoever asks for them.]
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[ So the Persians call Freemasons, about whom they are very inquisitive.]