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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.10357#0058
JERUSALEM.
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It must not be supposed that this is the best shoe-
maker's shop to be found in the city. There is one not far
off where rows of large red boots, the pride of the Bedouin
chieftain, and red slippers and shoes of all sizes, may be
found, and another in which may be purchased delicately
made Damascus socks of yellow kid, like boots, to be worn
by ladies under their yellow shoes. It is one of the greatest
delights of a peasant to put on a pair of new shoes, and
ENTRANCE TO THE HOSPICE OF ST. JOHN AND MINARET OF OMAR.
A muezzin in the balcony chanting the call to prayer. Peasants loading a camel in the foreground, and a townswoman wearing a white
izzar and dark veil in the distance.
35
It must not be supposed that this is the best shoe-
maker's shop to be found in the city. There is one not far
off where rows of large red boots, the pride of the Bedouin
chieftain, and red slippers and shoes of all sizes, may be
found, and another in which may be purchased delicately
made Damascus socks of yellow kid, like boots, to be worn
by ladies under their yellow shoes. It is one of the greatest
delights of a peasant to put on a pair of new shoes, and
ENTRANCE TO THE HOSPICE OF ST. JOHN AND MINARET OF OMAR.
A muezzin in the balcony chanting the call to prayer. Peasants loading a camel in the foreground, and a townswoman wearing a white
izzar and dark veil in the distance.