| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - giving the hand is considered as a pledge of friendship and fidelity, or a form of entering into a contract, among all nations Mr. Bruce relates, that when he entreated the protection of a {sheikh,} the great people who were assembled came, and after joining hands, repeated a kind of prayer, of about two minutes long; by which they declared themselves and their children accursed, if ever they lif
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