ABSTRACT
Tf,c Gucst HllllSt', Muka/fa. Stalldil(1! L.-R.-'Abdul Malik, driver, Dr. RCllade, 'MsdlcIII, Salif, 'Ali, Seiyids 'Abdl/l Qadir, pllOtt~~rapf,cr, driver
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washed, carpeted passage. The entrance of the living-room, a well-proportioned arch, was on the left and at the end of the passage was a small bathroom. The living-room was perhaps twenty feet square and about ten feet high. There were six windows with exquisitely carved lattice ,york and one small glass window, in the shape of an old Arab lamp, quite high up. The system gave plenty of light without any glare. The walls were whitewashed and each side of the entrance a door, in a heavy, carved frame, gave on to large cupboards in which rifles, bandoliers and clothes were hung. These doors were studded with iron nails, two inches in diameter and burnished with lead so that they looked like silver. The ceiling was an attractive herring-bone arrangement of slats, roughly hewn in unstained date wood. The beams ofcarved'elb wood were supported by four square pillars of the same material with wide capitals. Between three of these pillars there were three plain wooden poles fixed high up over which clothes are hung. The floor was spread with camel-hair rugs striped rust brown, white and black, and a few cushions completed the furniture.
