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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Reports from Samarcand describe a large migration of men, women, children, and livestock from regions northeast of the Caspian Sea entering the kingdom, led by a white-robed figure with a jeweled plate, mitre, and long grey beard, to whom all obey; they observe a seventh-day rest, celebrate new and full moons, and repeat 'SALEM HAKKADOSH'.
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Several particulars are related concerning them, viz. That there is a person amongst them clothed in white garments,with a plate set with precious stones on his breast, a mitre on his head, with a venerable grey beard reaching down to his girdle ; to whom all ranks and degrees pay an implicit obedience : That they abstain from all nourishment and labour every seventh day, and keep the new and full moons with great mirth and festivity ; and lastly, that they make frequent repetition of the Words, SALEM HAKKADOSH.
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Kingdom Of Samarcand
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An infinite host of men, women, and children, attended by numerous herds of camels-oxen, cows, sheep, goats, and asses, are making their way into the kingdom of Samarcand from regions far stretched north-eastward of the Caspian sea, beyond the sandy deserts of the kingdom of Bokhara. There is a person amongst them clothed in white garments, with a plate set with precious stones on his breast, a mitre on his head, with a venerable grey beard reaching down to his girdle; to whom all ranks and degrees pay an implicit obedience. They abstain from all nourishment and labour every seventh day, and keep the new and full moons with great mirth and festivity; and make frequent repetition of the Words, SALEM HAKKADOSH.