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the remainder he divides by 15. The quotient is the
number of the minutes of the dragon's head and
tail.

If we would indulge in further quotations from the
cctnones of the Hindus, we should entirely get away from
the subject of the present book. Therefore we restrict
ourselves to quote from them only subjects more or less
connected with the special subject of this book, which
either are noteworthy for their strangeness, or which
are unknown among our people (the Muslims) and in
our (the Muslim) countries.