. Across Asia Minor on foot . Beggar of the Bagdad f*:.;. Traffic on Bagdad Road, near Khavsa. A WEIRD BEGGAR 29 As we rose out of the next valley a donkey and afigure on the ground beside it attracted my were in the shadow of a solitary tree growingat the roadside. The donkey stood with droopinghead, the picture of patience, but the figure moved incurious fashion, and I went up to look more now it appeared that I had fallen into the trapof a beggar, one of those mendicants who infest theroad and profit by their infirmities. He sprang upand asked for alms, and
. Across Asia Minor on foot . Beggar of the Bagdad f*:.;. Traffic on Bagdad Road, near Khavsa. A WEIRD BEGGAR 29 As we rose out of the next valley a donkey and afigure on the ground beside it attracted my were in the shadow of a solitary tree growingat the roadside. The donkey stood with droopinghead, the picture of patience, but the figure moved incurious fashion, and I went up to look more now it appeared that I had fallen into the trapof a beggar, one of those mendicants who infest theroad and profit by their infirmities. He sprang upand asked for alms, and because these were not im-mediately forthcoming went on all-fours and showeda number of antics, imitating a dog and goat andother animals to admiration. Then I saw that he waswithout thighs ; that the knee-joint was at the hip,the leg rigid, and only half the usual length. Withhis grim bearded face thrust upwards, and the oddmovements of his little legs, he lacked only a stumpof tail to make me think I had come upon a satyrin life. At last I photograph
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