ADVENTURES WITH A CAMERA TX MANY LANDS 



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A SCRIBE) OF CAIRO COMPILING THE DAYS GOSSIP 



Humbly housed in a tiny stall, which looks like the deserted home of an upright piano, 

 the Egyptian letter-writer- plies his trade. Not only all the intrigues of the mystic East are 

 poured into his ear and flow from his fingers, but he conducts such normal business as that 

 of which any grammar-school child would be capable. 



pictures of Asiatic peoples, upon whose 

 good will the recorder of pictorial geog- 

 raphy must rely. 



It is this cooperation with those com- 

 mon folks who cannot speak his language 

 which robs many a photographer's day of 

 loneliness and makes the picturing of 

 foreign peoples a delight such as the lion- 

 hunter never knows. I have never seen 

 a smile on the face of the tiger which 

 has fallen before the rifle of a sportsman, 

 but I have captured many a very friendly 

 smile with mv camera. 



These smiles of brotherhood flashed 

 half way around the world are the sym- 

 bols of mutual confidence and under- 

 standing. 



IN THE RAWALPINDI BAZAAR 



The Rawalpindi bazaar, by all the con- 

 ventions of guide-book emphasis, is a 

 place of no importance at all. In the 

 midst of the busy street, a crude rolling- 

 mill turned by hand transformed sugar- 

 cane from ambrosia to nectar. Sitting 

 '011 a pile of a thousand suits of cast-off 



