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The faquir paid not the slightest attention, but continued holding out his tongs with the dish at the end of it.

Some Mohammedan faquirs would have accompanied him, but he would not suffer them, because, he said, he could not engage for their safety among his countrymen.

Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and suggested calling a sentry to evict the faquir.

The faquirs do not like to be photographed, and this follow in the upper picture was snapped just in the act of rising from his bed of spikes.

But the faquir did not want others to do the same.