ithin which no infidel foot ever is or can be set.
Its missionaries wander everywhere, keeping up the flame of
Islam,--the hope that the day is coming, is at hand, when the white
curs shall pass away, and the splendid throne which Timour won for the
faithful shall again be theirs. They have their own papers, their own
messengers, their own mail carriers, and they trust no other.
Repeatedly, before the telegraph was established, their agents
outstripped the fastest couriers the government could employ. The
government express was carried by Mussulmans, who allowed the private
messengers to get on a few hours ahead. Every dervish, moollah, or
missionary, is a secret agent. This organization, which has always
existed, has of late been drawn closer, partly as the result of their
great mutiny, which taught the priests their hold over the soldiery,
partly by the expiration of the 'century of expiation,' and partly by
the marvelous revival of the Puritan element in Mohammedanism itself."

[K] See Southey's Wesley, chap. III. Report of Joint Delegation of the
Society of Friends, 1869. Hedge's Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition,
p. 83. Coffin's New Way Round the World, pp. 270, 308, 361. Colden's
History of the Five Indian Nations (dedication). He says also, "We
have reason to be ashamed that those infidels, by our conversation and
neighborhood, are become worse than they were before they knew us." It
appears from this book (as from other witnesses), that one of the
worst crimes now practiced by the Indians has sprung up since that
day, being apparently stimulated by the brutalities practiced by
whites towards Indian women. Colden says, "I have been assured that
there is not an instance of their offering the least violence to the
chastity of any woman that was their captive" (Vol. I., p. 9, 3d ed.).
Compare Parkman's Pontiac, II., 236.

[L] "Cum ea quae Romani polluerant fornicatione, nunc mundent barbari
castitate."--_Salvian de Gubern. Dei._ ed. 1623, p. 254, quoted in
Gilly's Vigilantius, p. 360.

[M] "Neither history nor more recent experience can furnish any
example of the long retention of pure Christianity by a people
themselves rude and unenlightened. In all the nations of Europe,
embracing every period since the second century, Christianity must be
regarded as having taken the hue and complexion of the social state
with which it was incorporated, presenting itself unsullied,
contaminated, or corrupted, in sympathy wit