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
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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
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