in the Eastern countries, a kind of fanics supposed to be inspired to a degree of madness. The word comes, perhaps, from the Arabic, Abdallat, the servant of God. The Persians call them devanekh khoda, similar to the Latin way of speaking of their prophets and fibyls, q. d. fuerent deo, raging with the god. They are often carried by excess of zeal, especially in the Indies, to run about the streets, and kill all they meet of a different religion; of which travelers furnish many instances. The English call this, running a mak, from the name of the instrument, a sort of poignard, which they employ on those desperate occasions. If they are killed, as it commonly happens, before they have done much mischief, they reckon it highly meritorious; and are esteemed, by the vulgar, martyrs for their faith.