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A PERSIAN KHAN WITH HIS BODYGUARD 



On account of the numerous bands of marauding bandits which infest the highways, a 

 traveler in Persia does not venture forth without a guard of armed retainers. 



Photographs by R. K. De Witt 



PERSIAN HUNTERS WITH THE FRUITS OF THEIR CHASE, A WILD BOAR 



The jungles in the semi-tropical Caspian Sea region fairly teem with wild boars, which 

 render themselves doubly unclean and obnoxious to the Moslem peasants by their never- 

 ceasing inroads on the rice fields. These doughty hunters have not only proudly demon- 

 strated their skill with their antiquated flint-lock muskets, but arc very evidently satisfied 

 at having disposed of one more hated marauder. 



