Perhaps, if they had more of this, they would resist disease better.

Imbued from childhood with the habit of submission, drinking in through every pore that other-world trust which is the one spirit of their songs, they can endure everything.

This I expected; but I am relieved to find that their religion strengthens them on the positive side also,--gives zeal, energy, daring.

They could easily be made fanatics, if I chose; but I do not choose.

Their whole mood is essentially Mohammedan, perhaps, in its strength and its weakness; and I feel the same degree of sympathy that I should if I had a Turkish command,--that is, a sort of sympathetic admiration, not tending towards agreement, but towards co-operation.