Pilgrims
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The modern hajj has its origins in the rise of religious tourism to Mecca in the nineteenth century, when steamships began transporting large numbers of
pilgrims
to the Arabian Peninsula.
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Meanwhile, independent groups of Norman knights traveled to the Mediterranean, inspired by tales of
pilgrims
returning from Jerusalem.
While the narrative runs to over 17,000 lines, it's apparently unfinished, as the prologue ambitiously introduces 29
pilgrims
and promises four stories apiece, and the innkeeper never crowns a victor.
Not simply to the flanks of the mountains, but to the very iced peaks which are the destiny of the
pilgrims.
You know, I read that the pilgrims, when they landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts in 1620, wrote that you could walk across Cape Cod Bay on the backs of right whales.
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