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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC .MAGAZINE 



A KURDISH WRESTLING MATCH OUTSIDE A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE 



The inhabitants are descended from the Kurds brought by Abbas Shah to oppose the 



Turkomans 



A VILLAGE OF TURKOMANS WHO HAVE GIVEN UP THE NOMADIC LIEE IN LARGE 



MEASURE 

 The houses are built entirely of mud, even the domes containing no wood whatever 



time a new and most welcome factor en- 

 tered into the situation ; rose starlings, 

 northward bound on their annual migra- 

 tion, appeared upon the scene one morn- 

 ing. A pleasant light came into the faces 

 of the Turkomans as they pointed to the 

 great flocks of rosy-breasted, black- 



winged birds which circled over the plain 

 in troops like blackbirds in America dur- 

 ing the fall of the year. They ate vora- 

 ciously ; and thousands, nay, millions, of 

 the pestiferous insects were devoured in 

 a single day. 



On the following: moraine: the number 



