Their heads were covered with high pointed hats of white felt.

They spread out carpets and skins of beasts, and began their ceremonies with a great bowing and kissing of the ground.

At length the music struck up; but I do not remember ever to have heard a performance so utterly horrible.

The instruments were a child's drum, a shepherd's pipe, and a miserable fiddle.

Several voices set up a squeaking and whining accompaniment, with an utter disregard of time and tune.
Twelve dervishes now began their dance,--if indeed a turning round in a circle, while their full dresses spread round them like a large wheel, can be called by such a name.