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ON THE THRESHOLD OF LIFE AND DEATH
| The Bishârîn boy and girl are standing at one of the entrances to the ancient Arab cemetery east of Assuan, where the people of this Nubian tribe have their rude dwellings amid the simple graves and domed tombs of the dead. The Bishârîn are a pastoral people, but occasionally one of them may be seen astride a camel in charge of the desert mail |