Footnote 515:
See Gen. 15 : 1–21.
Footnote 516:
On this point I am assured by missionaries and other dwellers in
Persia.
Footnote 517:
Morier’s _Journey to Constantinople_, p. 75.
Footnote 518:
_Ibid._, p. 84 f. See, also, Morier’s _Second Journey through Persia_,
p. 93 f.
Again, when the Shah of Persia was to enter Teheran, he was received
outside of the walls, by prominent officials, with much ceremony. As
he approached
Footnote 519:
Morier’s _Second Journey through Persia_, p. 387 f.
Footnote 520:
Layard’s _Nineveh and Babylon_ (Am. ed.), p. 35 f.
Footnote 521:
_Ibid._, p. 37.
Footnote 522:
My informant, an eye-witness of this incident, was not sure whether it
was a Prussian, an Austrian, or a Russian prince.
Footnote 523:
Burckhardt’s _Travels in Nubia_, p. 157.
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IV.
ORIGIN OF THE RITE.