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    Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children
    Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children
    Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children
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    Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children

    By Amy E. Zwemer and Samuel Marinus Zwemer

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children - Amy E. Zwemer

      Project Gutenberg's Topsy-Turvy Land, by Samuel M. Zwemer

      Amy E. Zwemer

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Topsy-Turvy Land

      Arabia Pictured for Children

      Author: Samuel M. Zwemer

      Amy E. Zwemer

      Release Date: April 19, 2005 [EBook #15658]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOPSY-TURVY LAND ***

      Produced by Curtis Weyant, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      TOPSY-TURVY LAND

      ARABIA PICTURED

      FOR CHILDREN

      BY

      SAMUEL M. ZWEMER

      AND

      AMY E. ZWEMER

      ARAB BOYS.

      TOPSY-TURVY LAND

      ARABIA PICTURED

      FOR CHILDREN

      BY

      SAMUEL M. ZWEMER

      AND

      AMY E. ZWEMER

      Fleming H. Revell Company

      NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO

      Copyright, 1902 by

      Fleming H. Revell Company

      (July)

      DEDICATED

      TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS

      WHO ARE HELPING TO TURN THE WORLD

      UPSIDE DOWN

      PREFACE

      This is a book of pictures and stories for big children and small grown-up folks; for all who love Sinbad the sailor and his strange country. It is a topsy-turvy book; there is no order about the chapters; and you can begin to read it anywhere. It is intended to give a bird's-eye view to those who cannot take birds' wings. The stories are not as good as those of the Arabian Nights but the morals are better—and so are the pictures. Moreover the stories are true. You must not skip any of the chapters or the pictures but you may the preface, if you like.

      {S.M.Z.

      {A.E.Z.

      Bahrein, Arabia.

      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations

      I

      WHY IS ARABIA TOPSY-TURVY LAND?

      On this big round earth there are all sorts of countries and peoples. Men walk on it on every side just like flies crawling over a watermelon and they do not fall off either. On the next page you can see how they travel all around the world; some in steamships, some in carriages or on horses, some in jinrickshaws and some in the railway coaches. In Topsy-turvy Land they have no railroads and not even waggon-roads or waggons. A horse or a camel or a donkey is used for passengers and the camel caravan is a freight train.

      Or if you wish, the camel is a topsy-turvy ship which sails in the sand instead of in the water. It is called the ship of the desert. The masts point down instead of up; there are four masts instead of three; and although there are ropes the desert-ship has no sails and no rudder—unless the rudder be the tail. When the ship lies at anchor to be loaded it feeds on grass and the four masts are all snugly tucked away under the hull. In Arabia you generally see these ships of the desert in a long line like a naval procession, each battleship towing its mate by a piece of rope fastened from halter to tail! But not only is the mode of travel strange in Topsy-turvy Land, even the time of the day is all upside down. When the boys and girls of America are going to bed the boys and girls of Arabia are thinking of getting up. As early as four o'clock by western time the muezzin calls out loud from the top of the minaret (for Moslem churches have no steeples and no bells) to come and pray. Arabs count the hours from sunrise. It is noon at six o'clock and they breakfast at one; at three o'clock in the evening all good boys and girls are asleep.

      MODES OF TRAVEL.

      In Topsy-turvy Land all the habits and customs are exactly opposite to those in America or England. For instance when a boy enters a room he takes off his shoes but leaves his hat on his head. I do not know whether we should call it a hat, however. His hat has no rim and is not made of felt or straw, but is just a folded handkerchief of a large size and bright colour with a piece of cord to hold it wound round his head—a sort of a hat in two pieces. The girls go without shoes but carefully cover their pretty (or ugly) faces with a black veil.

      At home you eat with a spoon or use a knife and fork. Here the Arabs eat with their fingers; nor do they use any plates or butter dishes, but a large piece of flat bread serves as a plate until it is all eaten. So you see in Arabia the children not only eat their rice and meat but their plates also. You read a book from left to right but in Arabia everybody begins at the right-hand cover and reads backward. Even the lines read backward and in Arabic writing there are no commas or capitals and the vowels are written not next to the consonants but stuck up above them. Potato in Arabic would be written with English letters this way:

      Can you read it?

      In your country a carpenter stands at his bench to work, but here they sit on the ground. With you he uses a vise to hold the board or stick he is planing; here he uses his bare toes. With you he pushes the saw or, especially, the plane away from him to cut or to smooth a piece of wood, but in Topsy-turvy Land he pulls his tools towards him. Buttons are on the button-hole side and the holes are where you put the buttons. Door keys and door hinges are made of wood, not of iron as in the Occident. The women wear toe-rings and nose-rings as well as earrings and bracelets. Everything seems different from what it is in a Christian country.

      One strange sight is to meet people out riding. Do you know that the men ride donkeys side-saddle, but the women ride as men do in your country? When a missionary lady first came

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