Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.34

c12.34

“in true dervish fashion, in all sorts of ways, and mixing with all sorts of people. Stumbling after the Pilgrim’s Caravan through the burning deserts of Arabia, now bandying jests with a fine technical flavour of grammatical terminology with schoolboys of Káshghar, now a prisoner in the hands of the Franks, condemned to hard labour in the company of Jews in the Syrian town of Tripoli, now engaged in investigating the mechanism of a wonder-working Hindoo idol in the temple of Somnáth, and saving his life by killing the custodian who discovered him engaged in this pursuit.”¹