Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harper's opens with a description of the "Holy Places of Islam" by Charles Dudley Warner. It is very interesting and the information given is remarkable, since only two unbelievers, Burckhardt and Burton, have ever made the pilgrim age to Mecca and Medineh. The photo graphs, which are the first of the kind ever published, were taken by a Moslem officer of high rank...