THE PEOPLE OF THE WILDERNESS 



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Photograph by Graham Romeyn Taylor 



THE DOOR TO THE TOMB OF TIMUR THE LAME 

 The Mongol leader has been variously painted by his biographers. To some he seems 

 merely "a deformed and impious person of low breed and detestable principles : to others, 

 a sort' of demi-demon, like Richard III. The magnificent but now crumbling summer palace, 

 mosques, and colleges in his capital city of Samarkand bear witness to the fact, however, 

 that Timur and his immediate successors were splendid patrons ot architecture. 



