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42_66 Haifa, Palestine almost intoxicate me with a sense of the East. Veiled women, women, darkly veiled and dressed, move silently along the narrow ways; fish [huchsters] shout at the top of their lungs; cabriolet drivers and mule teamsters shout even more loudly to get their vehicles through these streets crowded from side to side and so narrow and irregular; mechanics make an infernal racket in their shops which open on the streets; a company of Syrian prisoners guarded by gen'd'armes goes briskly by - almost as if they were a small company of infantry, but I notice that they are chained by the wrists in twos and that they have a cotton uniform with large dull white and black checks; |
42_67 Jan. 29, 1926 a vender stands behind a little brazier against the street wall and roasts chestnuts (oh, so tasty, hot, - a heaping handful for half-a-piastre,) that is 2 1/2 cents!); a dense line of beggar women squatting along the walls from the temple gate towards the mosque, and looking down this vista I can see hundreds of Moslem worshippers - for it is high noon - prostrating themselves toward Mecca, the mass of suppliants rising and falling in unison like a wave; the throng now pours out from under the high tower into the crowded street and each beggar woman rises and holds out a palm beseeching the worshipper to give; prosperous merchants appear here and there, if Moslem, wearing a fez; hundreds of [fellalin] in their rags - ah rags - why I |
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