Photograph by Harold F. Weston 



A GIFT LAMB FROM A PERSIAN POTENTATE 



In the absence of her husband, the wife of Ambdullah Khan of Dehbid presented the western traveler 

 with this token of hospitality in lieu of personal entertainment. In the Orient a man never travels except on 

 a pilgrimage or for some special gain. The Persians could not understand a tourist's motives and insisted on 

 assuming that the traveler was on some important mission of a political nature. 



