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DEAN MAHOMET.
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them, numerous torches flaming round them, that ſeem with their blaze to diſperſe the gloom of night, and fire-works, exhibiting in the ambient air, a variety of dazzling figures. When they arrive, the Militia gives them his benediction, and ſprinkles the people about them, with perfumed water coloured with ſaffron: a ſecond entertainment is then prepared for their. friends and acquaintance, which concludes the hymeneal feſtivity, Among people of rank, merchants, and tradeſmen, who have made any acquiſitions, in life, the Lady never goes outſide the doors after marriage, except when ſhe is carried on a palanquin, which is ſo well covered
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