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Photograph by Ei 

 ARAB-MADE FERRIS WHEEL IN BAGDAD 



Keast Burke 



On festival occasions such crude devices spring up in the outskirts of the City of Caliphs 

 and prove a popular diversion for Arab children. The motive power is, of course, manual. 

 Note the similarity of these vertical merry-go-rounds to the fete wheels of Eastertide in 

 Irkutsk, Siberia (see illustrations, pages 488 and 489). 



