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ARAB VILLAGE OF RKED MATS AND ROUND EORT ON LOWER EUPHRATES 

 "Few Arab women I met had ever even heard of America. One or two, whose^husbands 

 sold wool and dates to Bagdad traders, knew there was such a place as Amenque, but they 

 believed it merely a part of that far-away land called London, from whence came then- 

 bright calico and the cheap guns used by the sheiks in tribal wars. Even the men can tell 

 the women little of the world beyond the desert's rim" (see text, page 567). 



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