TCD MS 10516 folio 50 recto
[21st September 1916] and sects of the Musselman religion. The interpreter excelled himself on this subject; he could bring to bear on it the voice of unquestionable authority as he had come from Kerbela, where his employment brought him into close relationship with thousands of Shiah pilgrims that yearly visit this sacred city. I think he was in reality a pilgrim guide though he did not seem to wish to admit it.
He was as bigoted as he was eloquent; causing the greatest amusement in expressing the belief that all men, except the faithful Shiahs, were destined to eternal damnation; and the Sunnis most surely of all. A Christian or a Hindu or any Heretic on earth was to him a less despised and outcast creature than the Sunni of his own faith. There were two Sunnis on board. He scorned them, spurned them yet, at the same time, feared them. He avoided them as he would dogs or swine, cast fur-