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ACQUIRING "LEGAL PURITY" IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOSQUE |
MONGOL MAIDEN FROM SAKHALIEN ISLAND |
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| Provided that his face be turned towards Mecca, the devout Moslem may pray in a public thoroughfare as properly as in the privacy of his home, but before entering the house of prayer he must perform the "Abtest," in other words become "legally pure" by washing hands and forearms, face and feet in running water, which is provided by the fountains attached to every mosque | At the close of the Russo-Japanese war, 1904-5, the south part of Sakhalien was ceded to Japan. On the frontier live an aboriginal tribe of Tungus stock called Orochons. This girl's features are strongly Mongoloid |