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This inlaying is quite a distinctive art of the district of Arabia along the north-eastern coast known as El Hasa; curious old guns, saddles, bowls, and coffee-pots, in fact everything with an artistic tendency, comes from that country. The day following was the great Thursday's Market at Beled-al-Kadim, near the old minarets and the wells.
The other well, Abu Zeidan, is situated in the midst of the ruins known as Beled-al-Kadim, or 'old town. Two days later our camp was struck, and our long cavalcade, with Seid-bin-Omar, the bazaar-master, at its head, returned to Manamah.
On their heads would be baskets with dates or citrons, and now and again a particularly modest one would dart behind a palm-tree until that dangerous animal man had gone by. About half way to the scene of our labours we halted by the ruins of the old Arab town, Beled-al-Kadim. This ancient capital, dating from a period prior to the Portuguese occupation, still presents some interesting ruins.
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