142 The National Geographic Magazine 



Photos by Fairchild 



1. Three Brahmins on the "Pemba. " As their religion permits them to eat nothing 

 cooked by non-Brahmin hands, these men ate apart from the several hundred Mohammedan 

 pilgrims on the steamer. 



2. The boat shown in No. 3 of the preceding page in the water. 



3. Mohammedan women at Bagdad. 



4. The falcon of an Arab skeik. 



