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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Frederick Moore 



EXILED 



Turkish political and other prisoners being shipped to a penal colony. "The one change 

 that_ must precede all others before the possibilities of this land and these people can be 

 realized is to rid the country of its present rulers." 



movements. It has been the center of 

 intrigues and treaties, of councils and con- 

 spiracies, around which have circled the 

 policies of Europe for the last sixteen 

 hundred years. 



Within the bounds of Turkey also lay 

 Phoenicia, the synonym for commerce 

 and trade. From the shores of Syria the 

 merchants of Tyre and Sidon sent their 

 fleets of ships, trafficking with all the 

 world. Located in the pathway between 

 Egypt and Babylon, it was the ideal posi- 

 tion for trade ; while the western world, 

 along the Mediterranean shores, was an 

 ever-growing market for the wares of the 

 east. With the instinct"of merchants, the 

 people of Syria made the most of their 

 wonderful geographic position to become 

 the first great shop-keeping nation. 



And this land still remains the con- 

 necting link between the three continents, 

 and across it should still lie the highways 



of trade between the east and the west, 

 the north and the south. 



Where Turkey joins to Egypt is Pales- 

 tine. No spot of earth in all the world 

 bears such memories for so many and 

 such a variety of peoples as the rugged 

 mountain slopes, narrow valleys, and half 

 desert wastes of Judea and Galilee. Beer- 

 sheba, Hebron, Bethlehem, Nazareth, 

 Jerusalem — the mere mention of these 

 names tells the story of Abraham and 

 Moses and David, of the prophets of 

 Israel and of the Son of Man. 



THE PRICE OE NEGEECT AND INJUSTICE 



Kings and priests and people come 

 from the north and the south, from the 

 east and the west, and "bring the glory of 

 the nations" to do homage to the mem- 

 ories that cluster about these sacred 

 shrines. 



What a land, then, is that comprised 



