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Karly in the year when the Sewing Guild's boxes ea( I gave each
of the women and the baby, a dross. Imagine my surprise when I nn
was called upon the next day to rescue them from the hands of the .vn
men who were about to sell them. Realizing the extreme need that >n-
i had caused the men to act thus, we gave them each a cheap garment, "S
and so the women did not have to lose their pretty dresses.
We cannot stop and see all the lepers today, but we must not pass en
by Zahara. If you could learn to know her as we and others of our so
missionaries who have lived in Muscat know her, I am sure vour :s.
I hearts would go out to her as ours have done. She U so gentle and rc
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TREATING PATIENTS NEAR MUSCAT.
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lovable. Most of the lepers come from the very lowest classes and »
the life in the colony is not unlike that to which they are accustomed.
But Zahara’s people, though reduced to extreme poverty, are very re­
spectable, and we know how hard it was for her to leave her mother s
home to come here and live intimately with people so low and coarse.
She does not complain, however, and tries by example and precept to
teach them that kindness and love are better than abuse. She helps
Faidu to bathe and dress the baby, sees to it that the blind man gets
his portion of whatever is given them in common, and fre­
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quently shares her few pice with some one of the poor Baluchis, who
live near the leper huts.