Park Animals and the Deep Snow
Photographs Made by a Staff
Artist at Kivcrvicw Park
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Land of Arab Kings
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All Arabia believed tbat It was tbe abode
ot ihn DjinQH. Whoever approached It was
met and slain by DJinna, appearing as pil
lars of sand, as serpents or desert rob
bers, but equally deadly whatever form they
assumed.
For many hundred years, travelers
tempted by the legends tried to And Antra,
but always in vain. Most who tried re
cently were turned back before they passed
Into the desert; for the saltan, while ho
pretends to control tbe desert dwtlWrs,
knows better. Therefore, to evade respon
sibility and still to keep up his pretense,
he adopts the happy expedient of forbidding
travelers to cross the "dead lino."
The explorers who were turned back were
luckier than most of those who got through.
Most of them never returned. Tbe few
who did had little to tell except stories
of fights with Bedouins and uarrow es
capes. None of them saw tho "Ghost Pal
ace," and In tbe course of time men leaned
to the belief tbat Anira the Beautiful aa
ft fiction f Arabia.
Dr. Musll was more fortunate. In 1900
he had made a short visit to Arabia and
bad won the friendship of one of tbe most
powerful of the Arab rulers, Emir TaJJal,
the chief of the Bent 8achr, the "Sons of
the Rocks." He accompanied him on a
fighting expedition againRt another tribe
and his services as surgeon had endeared
him to the old Arab.
The Emir Tajjal was an Arab of the
traditionary kind. Throughout the deserts,
from end to end of the peninsula, he was
equally honored for his Integrity and no
bility of character and feared for his power.
So, when Dr. Musil, accompanied by his
friend, Alphons Ieopoll Mlelich, the
painter, arrived in Madaba on the desert
frontier in 1!K)1, prepared to search for
Amr, the watchfulness of the Turkish au
thorities was set at nuught by bis Arab
friends.
Tho Turks, suspecting the object of the
Austrlans, warned them that they would
bo arrested if they tried to leave tbe place.
But one night they evaded the guards and
made- their way to a rendezvous In the
desert Just outside of Madaba.
Here Sheik Hajel, the. brother of the
Emir, and as noble-hearted as tbat Emir
himself, met them with seven camels of
tbe purest breed to be fou.id in Arabia.
Armed bedouins guarded the outfit, while
others crept Into the town and smuggled
out the travelers' effects.
Then the two Austrlans were garbed by
the Arabs In the favorite disguise of the
men of the Arabian Nights stories that
of physicians, Musil being named the phy
sician Mutsa and Mielich the physician
Hunna.
Sheik Hajel had spared no expense. That
Involved no financial hardship for him,
however, for Dr. Musil nays that he Is so
rich that bo cannot estimate his own
wealth.
Tens of thousands of tribesmen pay him
tribute and every caravan that goes be
tween Mecca and Muscat, or Mecca and
Damascus. do the same. Tbe unhappy
caravans call it robbery. The Sheik and
the Euilr call it tribute paid to them as
musters of the land.
Fcr three days and nights the party
crossed fiery sands. Then they saw, far
on the horizon, t great building, and the
Arab warriors stopped and prayed. The
shlek once more pressed on the Austrlans
tho danger Into which they were going.
Finding them obdurate, he and hlB men
concealed their own superstitious ter
rors and advanced.
They found a strange palace indeed. For
more than 1,000 years of loneliness the red
sands of Arabia had piled around it. For
more than 1,000 years probably no human
foot had entered It. Yet It looked out over
tbe lllimltible deserts, not a ruin, but a
noble structure with all Its linea Intact.
There was only one door to the whole
building. Nothing could Induce the Arabs
to enter and the Austrlans went in alone.
To their great delight they found the
great wall paintings of which the legends
had told. The colors were still well pre
served and the pictures showed the life and
history of centuries before Christ and of
a nation and kings whose names have been
only legends for twenty centuries.
The travelers had been In the castle a
little more than an hour when shots rang
outside. Rushing forth they found a hot
fight on between their escort and a horde
of desert robbers. - '
The Austrlans unslung their rifles and
pitched In. But the party was hopelessly
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