Photograph by M. O. Williams 



a bokhara khan looking in from the dark passage that leads to the 

 covered bazaar: great wealth is sometimes contained here 



Like many another ancient city, Bokhara does not owe its permanence to brick or marble. 

 A good rain would wash away its crumbling walls and mud nouses. It is being continually 

 patched and rebuilt, never completely old and never wholly new. 



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