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Yet round the brown fez was a green cloth, which may only be worn by one who has been a pilgrimage to Mecca. "Nehar-ak koom said God be with you!" said Dicky in Arabic. "Nehar-ak said, efendi God prosper thy greatness!" was the reply, in a voice as full as a man's, but as soft as a woman's an unusual thing in an Arab. "Have you travelled far?" asked Dicky.
The population of Koom, which now amounts to little more than between ten and twelve thousand, was formerly much larger. Like many other Persian cities saving, perhaps, Teherán it retains but little of its greatness, either as regards art or commerce. The bazaar is, notwithstanding, extensive and well supplied.
"Nehar-ak koom said, Mahommed Wassef," said Dicky; and sat upon a bench and drew a narghileh to him, wiping the ivory mouthpiece with his handkerchief. "Nehar-ak said, saadat el Pasha," answered Wassef, and touched lips, breast, and forehead with his hand. Then they shook hands, thumbs up, after the ancient custom. And once more, Wassef touched his breast, his lips, and his forehead.
At this unseemly hour there was a visitor! This was all the more unusual for I was not in the habit of receiving my most intimate friends or acquaintances at my private quarters. "Koom, massa!" Kim him don't know if he do right, maybe wrong; but gentleman said it all right that him come in." All apologies, Kim was fretting himself almost into a nervous collapse over the visitor.
In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good. The letter V, symbolical of the inverted pyramid, where it is an initial, nearly always denotes excellence of power; as Vril, of which I have said so much; Veed, an immortal spirit; Veed-ya, immortality; Koom, pronounced like the Welsh Cwm, denotes something of hollowness.
"Dot's so, Freda," she concluded, stolidly. "Koom den, der only blace vere we can talk py uns is dot coal-closet wo is der eggstry ice-cream freezer. Koom. I see Meezis O'Breen." Amid a startling pause, every eye questioning them, the three picked up Mrs. O'Brien and sought the coal-closet. Then Norah turned. In the dim light her face shone whitely.
Koom is noted for the manufacture of a white porous earthenware, which is made into flasks and bottles, some of beautiful design and workmanship. The city is entered from the north by a substantial stone bridge, spanning a swift but shallow river. It presents, at first sight, much more the appearance of a Spanish or Moorish town than a Persian one.
Yet round the brown fez was a green cloth, which may only be worn by one who has been a pilgrimage to Mecca. "Nehar-ak koom said God be with you!" said Dicky in Arabic. "Nehar-ak said, efendi God prosper thy greatness!" was the reply, in a voice as full as a man's, but as soft as a woman's an unusual thing in an Arab. "Have you travelled far?" asked Dicky.
By taking the less frequented track, we were unable to go through the "Malak al Niote," or "Valley of the Angel of Death," which lies about half-way between the capital and Koom. The valley is so called from its desolate and sterile appearance, though, if this be so, the greater part of Persia might with reason bear the same name.
My thermometer marked only one degree above zero when we retired to rest, and the wood was too damp to light a fire. But we are in Persia! It is only fair, however, to say that the road we were now travelling is not the regular post-road, which lies some distance to the eastward of Rabat Kerim, but was now impassable on account of the snow. The smaller track joins the main road at Koom.
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