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Note 10 — THE THREE CALENDERS, SONS OF KINGS, AND THE FIVE LADIES OF BAGDAD

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Calender, a sort of privileged beggar or fakir among the Mohammedans, who wore a dress of sheepskin, with a leathern girdle about his loins, and collected alms. A dervish is a poor man, who is not bound by any vow of poverty to abstain from meat, and may relinquish his profession at will.

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