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A LADY OF THE LAND OF FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH |
CAGE OF DEATH IN A LONELY PASS |
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| Arrayed in festive attire, with great armlets and bracelets, many necklaces, jewels, and embroidered dress, she proudly shows her face in the shadow of the palm grove. For she dwells in the happy highlands of Arabia Felix, the realm of the Queen of Sheba, rich in beauty and harvested wealth, with vast monuments of architecture reckoned some 3,600 years old | If one could peer through the bars of this cage there would be seen a little rubbish on the floor of it. That rubbish was once a man caught thieving in the Lataband Pass from Afghanistan into Bokhara. He was placed in this iron cage at the top of the pole and left to die of hunger. These man-cages are a favourite Afghan method of dealing with criminals |