14. _Hadji Husein_, his relative; and 15. _Hadji Ahmed_, formerly a Chinese soldier belonging to the regiment Shiiva that bears muskets and consists of Musselmans. From the Khanat Khokand were 16. _Hadji Salih Khalifed_, candidate for the Ishan, which signifies the title of Sheikh, consequently belonging to a semi-religious order; an excellent man of whom we shall have often occasion to speak. He was attended by his son, 17. _Hadji Abdul Baki_, and his brother 18. _Hadji Abdul Kader_ the _Medjzub_, which means, 'impelled by the love of God,' and who, whenever he has shouted two thousand times 'Allah,' foams at the mouth and falls into a state of ecstatic blessedness (Europeans name this state epilepsy). {24} 19. _Hadji Kari Messud_ (Kari has the same signification in Turkey as Hafiz, one who knows the whole Koran by heart). He was with his son, 20. _Hadji Gayaseddin_; 21. _Hadji Mirza Ali_; and 22._Hadji Ahrarkuli_; the bags of the two last-named pilgrims still contained some of their travelling provision in money, and they had a beast hired between them. 23. _Hadji Nur Mohammed_, a merchant who had been twice to Mecca; but not on his own account, only as representing another. [Ill-feeling of Shiites towards the Sunnite Hadjis] We advanced up the slopes of the chain of the Elburs mountains, which rose higher and higher. The depression of spirits in which I was, was remarked by my friends, who did all in their power to comfort me. It was, however, particularly Hadji Salih who encouraged me with the assurance that 'they would all feel for me the love of brothers, and the hope that, by the aid of God, we should soon be at liberty beyond the limits of the Shiite heretics, and be able to live comfortably in lands subject to the Sunnite Turkomans, who are followers of the same faith.' A pleasant prospect certainly, thought I; and I rode more quickly on in order to mix with the poor travellers who were preceding us on foot. Half an hour later I came up with them. I noticed how cheerfully they wended their way; men who had journeyed on foot from the remotest Turkestan to Mecca, and back again on foot. Whilst many were singing merry songs, which had great resemblance to those of Hungary, others were recounting the adventures they had gone through in the course of their wanderings; a conversation which occasioned {25} me great pleasure, as it served to make me acquainted with the modes of thought of those distant tribes, so that at the very moment of my departure from Teheran I found myself, so to say, in the midst of Central Asiatic life.