Show WAL AM wr 00 0 0 0 V I 1 alj T THE H HOLY CITY 4 TAvai andi i edans VON naj ak ja fa th fanual fi nual lo 10 macro ja this Is the time of the year when the annual pilgrimage to mecca occur occurs and again there comes the sad story that cholera prevail prevails among those who are arriving in the sacred city from to persons are dying dally daily choc choca a Is nearly always a feature ot at these annual pilgrimages but the evil eri Is 1 particularly serious thie this year and fears are expressed that ite its ravages will roach reach an alarming extent when the great flood good of pilgrims arrive at the port of jeddah on their way to mecca it Is difficult to estimate the number of pilgrims who annually visit the holy city only those who pass th through ough jeddah are counted with nore more or le les accuracy the large caravans that travel south the arabian desert haqq never been counted and only rough estimates hare have been made of 0 the number of people coal comics hy by these tend routes it wils estimated in 1814 that the total number of at pilgrims visiting mecca in that year was it Is believed that tola this year the total will reach over of late years the number of pilgrims mr baa has greatly in creased but their generosity genero alty in irk kitts Is U much on orl tho the decline this Is probably duo due to the fact that the world of ishara ha has been feeling very poor for yeu e past in tho the early ages of mohammedan ism IBM it was considered obligatory for ever every one cne of the faithful to tho the sacred city at least once in jr hl his life time the pilgrims hare have never been ao so numerous in the later history oc of mo nto in the early days kallis were building downa in that desert aa as stopping places for the grima grims and did a great deal to facilitate the journey and mako make it comforts comfort able tho act that this solicitude fo folt the well being of the devout haa ban not been for a long time ma account in part for tho the falling off ON 11 AM the number oc at pilgrim pilgrims the raema of a single caravan on the way to mey ca in tho thirteenth century rodo rode on 04 camela camels poverty doea does not destroy virtue n nor 1 ot does wealth bestow it |