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Show -M'l""- '. v "-Afia" g" '.".' V WJHf '"yj'' IJ i I '.V ' l I 1 .. .C (d"-. - ' .-T I' ! HOLY CARPET GOES TO MECCA . . . One of th? most picturesque j of Moslem ceremonies, the departure of the Holy Carpet for Meeca, took place in Cairo, Egypt, recently. Here is the carpet, loaded on a j camel, just before the departure. Every year the Egyptian govern- I I mer.t sends to Arabia fills which arc to adorn Mecca's shrines. Most ."'ortp.nt oi these is the Hoiy Carpet, a hucc hlark brocade. i-cidcrcd with gold thread which is laid over Ka'Afca. |