ABSTRACT
I was endeavouring to answer this question for myself when I heard songs and sounds of music coming from a ravine that is beside the city walls. I thought it might be a marriage, for the songs were joyful in character; but soon there appeared a group of Mussulmans waving banners, then others who carried on their shoulders a kind of litter containing a body. Women followed, uttering cries, and then a number of men with more banners and branches of trees.
