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life; among the ARAB PASSENGERS ON A TIGRIS STEAMER, BOUND EOR BAGDAD 



"Bagdad is in Turkish Arabia, near the Persian frontier, hard by old Eden, man's birth- 

 place. Here on the classic soil of Babylon, Nineveh, and Opis once flourished the pick of 

 the human race; here was the center of the world's wealth, power, and civilization. And 

 back to this ancient region modern men are turning, to reclaim its lost areas, open its mines 

 and oil deposits — to restore the Garden of Eden" (see text, page 546). 



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