a sect of Mahometans very like the ancient Stoics. They shun feasts and diversions, and affect an extraordinary gravity in all their actions; they are continually talking of God, and some of them make a jumble of Christianity and Mahometanism; they drink wine, even in the fast of the Ramazan; they love and protect the Christians; they believe that Mahomet is the Holy Ghost, practice circumcision, and justify it by the example of Jesus Christ.