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A LANDMARK 01? BABYI^ONIAN DAYS, NEAR BAGDAD 



"Time seemed to turn back twenty centuries when I stepped off the Tigris River steamer 

 at Bagdad. Old Testament men in turbans, sandals, and quaint flowing robes ('abbas') 

 crowded about, calling each other 'Yusuf and 'Musa' — Joseph and Moses. . . . Sheep 

 are slain to seal a vow, and the blood covenant is common. With their own shapely hands, 

 x\rab women still wash the feet of honored guests; upon their own heads they heap handfuls 

 of dust when they mourn for their dead children" (see text, page 567)- 



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