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Narrator 11,000 miles from San Francisco, 8000 miles from new york, there lies a primeval desert, a mass of drifting sand and sunbaked earth, one third the size of the United States, a place of ancient glories, long ago a center of thriving trade where came the merchants from india and china to barter their wares for spices, and fell into eclipse and remained until very recent years remote, unknown and isolated. Most of its people were the bedouin camel herders and shepherds who roamed the area, hostile wastes from one oasis to another in the wake of scattered rains that produced shortlived patches of vegetation. Monotony and poverty were the common lot. But in their abiding faith, they found solace, for religion is not worn like a cloak in the arab land. It is a vital part of every good moslems life. Mohammed united the arabs, purified their customs, bound them into one people ....