Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries sometimes drowned the noise of the instruments;these closed the procession.

接着是乐队和一支狂热的信徒组成的大军。他们叫喊的声音，有时甚至掩盖了那震耳欲聋的乐器声，游行队伍至此才算结束。

I'm en route to Persia to visit a famous holy man, a fakir.

我会去波斯拜访一个着名的圣人 一个苦行僧。

Fired by recollections of fakirs and devotees in illustrations Colin suggested that they should all sit cross-legged under the tree which made a canopy.

被插图中苦行僧和奉献者的回忆所激发，科林建议他们都应该盘腿坐在那棵树下，这棵树做了一个树冠。

" I once heard an officer in India tell my mother that there were fakirs who said words over and over thousands of times, " said Mary.

“我曾听一位印度军官告诉我母亲，有些苦行僧会把某句话一遍又一遍地说上千遍，”玛丽说。

They halted, half an hour afterwards, in a copse, some five hundred feet from the pagoda, where they were well concealed; but they could hear the groans and cries of the fakirs distinctly.

一个半小时之后，他们在一个灌木林里停下来了。这儿离庙只有五百步远。他们不仅可以看到庙宇，甚至就连庙里那帮狂热信徒的喊叫，都听得清清楚楚。

Magic is a great thing and scarcely any one knows anything about it except a few people in old books—and Mary a little, because she was born in India where there are fakirs.

魔法是一件伟大的事情，除了古书上的少数人之外，几乎没有人对它一无所知——玛丽略知一二，因为她出生在有苦行僧的印度。