Photo by Frederick Simpicli 

 ARAB RECRUITS BIDING DRILI.£;d IN TURKISH MILITARY SCHOOL AT BAGDAD 



tion, where its presence is embarrassing Busra are well known among all the 



and hard to explain. Maybe it was "date tribes in lower Mesopotamia, of course, 



"boils" that Job had! Once a British But Americans in Bagdad are as yet 



consul at Aleppo lost almost his whole an unknown quantity. For a year I lived 



nose from one of these boils. Nearly there, the sole specimen of my kind. Yet 



every Bagdad native you meet has this the 180,000 inhabitants show a striking 



"'date mark" on his face. variety, almost justifying the tradition 



which locates the "Tower of Babel" near 



THL towlr of BABEL WAS "locaTiJd" Bagdad (page 566) . Certainly the mixed 



HERL races living in Bagdad produce even now 



Since 1888, when the University of a striking "confusion of tongues" : 



Pennsylvania sent its archeological ex- Sunni Moslems 120,000 



pedition to Bagdad to explore buried Shia Moslems 15,000 



cities on the Chaldean plain, few Amer- Jf/'f , 4o,ooo 



. 1 1 . ^ mi A 1 Chaldeans i,doo 



leans have passed this way. i he Arabs Syrians 1,200 



about ancient Nippur, where the Amer- Greeks 150 



ican expedition excavated, remember the Hmdus 75 



men of that party very well, however. uropeans 



While I was in Bagdad a grizzled old This mixture preserves a peace bal- 

 desert guide came and asked after the ance, undoubtedly, and saves Bagdad 

 bealth of the men who left Bagdad for from the race wars and massacres corn- 

 Philadelphia more than 20 years ago! mon in Asia Minor, where; Moslem meets 

 The American medical missionaries at Christian. 



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