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Asia — Central (continued) : Page 

 Tombs of Meshed, the most holy place in 



Persia 790 



Turkoman ready for the trail 758 



Turkoman tents on the edge of the Trans- 



caspian Desert 751 



Turkomans in the sandy desert of Trans- 



caspia 789 



Two Persian fakirs, supposedly holy men. . . . 792 

 Village and irrigated fields on terraces in 



eastern Persia 793 



Village of Turkomans who have given up the 



nomadic life . 756 



Well-to-do Persian family 796 



Asia Minor and Arabia: Page 



An Arab sheikh 1060 



An Armenian family 145 



Arabian boys in a lonely kahn on the desert 



of Mesopotamia 184 



Arabian women churning butter 1052 



Armenian children in an American school in 



Asia Minor 178 



Armenian orphans in school at Aintab 180 



Armenians constructing a raft of inflated 



sheepskins 148 



Armenians of Marash 185 



Beautiful fountain in Edom, with Bedouin 



women filling water skins 1033 



Bedouin tent made of goat's hair cloth 1059 



Blind orphans in the American school for the 



blind: Urfa 178 



Boys carrying lunch to workmen in Marash. 193 



Bullock train hauling grain to market.. 174 



Camel and young: Arabia 1045 



Camel train taking the noonday rest 176 



Carpenter shop in the American industrial 



school: Urfa 180 



Cartload of grapes 182 



Carved doors at Hodeida: South Arabia 1056 



Castle of Gerger 154 



Castle of Marid, El Jowf: North Arabia .... 1 049 

 City wall and precipice surrounding Diarbekir. 186 



Collecting salt off the desert: Arabia 1043 



Completed raft of inflated sheepskins 149 



Convent of Saint Catharine at Sinai, dating 



back to 527 A. D 1024, 1028 



Convent of Saint Catharine, Sinai, from stair- 

 way leading to the Mountain of the 



Law 1030 



Costumes worn by Arabs in Asia Minor 182 



Curious bit of wind carving in the Desert of 



Sinai 1019 



Date-palm with ripe fruit: Arabia 1047 



Daughters of the desert: Arabia 1055 



Departure of the first train leaving Damascus 



for Medina 159 



Departure of the holy carpet from Damascus. 157 

 Engine "Abdul Hamid" on the Mecca Rail- 

 road 158 



Entrance to the main gorge of the Euphrates. 151 



Entrance to the Oasis of Hazeroth 1032 



Euphrates River near the western border of 



Mesopotamia 177 



Gateway on the stairway to the top of the 



Mountain of the Law 1031 



Group of Armenians ready for dinner 145 



Asia Minor and Arabia (continued) : Page 

 Hazeroth, a beautiful oasis where the children 



of Israel tarried seven days ^35 



High priests in Medina welcoming the first 



train from Damascus 170 



Hittite figure carved in solid limestone at Ger 



ger Castle 155 



Inaugurating the opening of the railroad at 



Tebuk 167 



In the gorge of the Tigris River: Taurus 



Mountains 177 



Island castle in the Euphrates River 147 



Ithera, a hamlet in Arabia 1048 



Jebel Sufsaf, claimed by most scholars as the 

 mountain from which the Law was pro- 

 claimed i 1023 



Jebel Sufsaf: The Mountain of the Law 1024 



Jerash : A city of the Decapolis, on the head- 

 waters of the Jabbok 1036 



Kurdish Moslems on plains of Suruj, near 



Aintab ig 7 



Kurd swimming across the Euphrates on an 



inflated goatskin 153 



Maan, a city in the desert 160 



Making stamped and embroidered saddlery in 



a Turkish town 188 



Making Turkish shoes and slippers 189 



Making Turkish tombstones 185 



Marble gorge of the Euphrates near Keban 



Maaden 15a 



Measuring salt: Arabia 1044 



Moslem women in a village of Asia Minor... 172 

 Moutaka pillars in Arabia, seen from railway 



to Mecca - 165 



Mule train carrying grain on the plains of 



Asia Minor 175 



Nagb el Hawa: Some nice red granite boul- 

 ders near Sinai 1018 



Nagb el Hawa: The windy defile leading into 



the heart of the Sinai group 1020 



Narrow bit along the seashore of the Gulf of 



Akaba 1037 



Oasis of Hazeroth, seen from the pass above 



and about a mile away 1034 



Oasis of Kaf, in the midst of the North Ara- 

 bian desert 1042 



Only entrance to the convent of Saint Catha- 

 rine, Sinai 1029 



Only means of transport in all the peninsula: 



The slowest in the world 10 16 



Our Sinai cameleers 1014 



Pharaoh's island and ruined castle 1038 



Pharaoh's treasury: Petra 1041 



Plain of Er-Rahah, seen from the mountain 



above 1026 



Portion of the city of Harput 146 



Preparing cotton for weaving: Ginning, beat- 

 ing, and spinning 190 



Primitive door in Jowf: Arabia 1050 



Railroad camp in the desert 169 



Rock-cut tombs at Medain Salih 168 



Rocky defile, or the sik, which was the en- 

 trance to Petra 1040 



Rocky road winding down into Hazeroth. ... 1032 



Roman ruins at Pergamus 14 



Ruins of Roman baths at Pergamus 15 



