Text Appearing Before Image: Moslem pilgrims pray at the Mosque of Omar, which occupies thesite of Solomons Temple. It is said that no faithful Jew will enter itsinclosure, for fear of treading on the spot where once was the Holy ofHolies Text Appearing After Image: Every Friday devout Jews weep under the walls of the Mosque of Omar, mourning the loss of their temple. They repeat for hours their litany: For the temple that is desolate. . . . We sit in solitude andmourn ON THE SITE OF SOLOMONS TEMPLE the centre of the earth, and that some beHeve it to bethe gate of hell. He shows us a plate of jasper as bigas a checker board, in which are three golden nails, sayingthat the plate originally contained nineteen nails whichMohammed had driven into it. One nail drops out atthe end of each age of the Moslem cycle, and when thelast nail is gone the end of the world will occur. Theguide offers to let me pull out the last three nails for adollar apiece, but I have no desire to hasten the Judg-ment Day, and therefore refuse. In that way I savethe world. The devil got at this plate one day, so our consularkavass tells me, and was jerking out the nails at a greatrate when the Angel Gabriel caught him and pulled himaway. These stories are silly, but they are o
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