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evidence of this tact we Iiave but to go an hour's walk beyond the limits
ot the village or Mcuamali, till we roach a place known locally as
“The ^rimrsday Bazar." The place is a sandy elevation rising out of
gardens of p.ilms and fields of herbage, and in the center of this
plain arc found tlie ruins of a mosque, or Moslem place of prayer. Two
imposing' minarets, hindmarks for miles around, stand like sentinels
above tlie heaps ot rubbish formed by the slow crumbling of the walls
of what was once undoubtedly a noble edifice. Though stripped of
the muezzin's pint form, these minarets are still handsome in outline.
and their masonry is well preserved. Narrow entrances «T.t the bottom
open upon a winding staircase that rises to the upper opening of the
minaret. By means ot this staircase the muezzin used to elevate him­
self above his fellows to give his voice a larger range as he sounded
forth Iiis blasphemous testimony about God and his apostle.
At tlie foot of these minarets is a heap of debris that shows work-
^ manship such as is not nou • attempted by the natives of Bahrein. \\*o
賴 find cylindrical pillars surmounted by arches ejuarried out of solid rock,
rafters carved with pious inscriptions, and walls decorated with entire
… chapters of history. Part of these walls stand almost intact, but most
•厂of them have yielded to the destructive influence of time, and are only
C a symbol of past glory.

A FORSAKEN TEMPLE AT BAHREIN,
J.—SHEMOON, THE ARABIC TEACHER. 2•—入 CONVICT. 3,—SOLOMOS, A COLPORTEUR.