The pilgrimage retained its importance for the commercial well-being of Mecca; to this day the Meccans live by the Hajj - letting rooms, acting as guides and directors in the sacred ceremonies, as contractors and touts for land and sea transport, as well as exploiting the many benefactions that flow to the holy city; while the surrounding Bedouins derive support from the camel-transport it demands and from the subsidies by which they are engaged to protect or abstain from molesting the pilgrim caravans. [Please select]
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Crows and touts, hoarse bookies in high wizard hats clamour deafeningly. [Please select]
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Green-goods men and blue-sky stock salesmen, race-course touts and sure-thing politicians get away with the same proposition in the U. [Please select]
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Three or four Arab touts, in excessively shabby European clothes and turbans, surrounded Domini with offers of assistance. [Please select]
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He was investing his winnings with great freedom, so the City understood, and his office was besieged daily by promoters and touts. [Please select]
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The housetops of his search should be half India; he would follow Kings and Ministers, as in the old days he had followed vakils and lawyers' touts across Lahore city for Mahbub Ali's sake. [Please select]
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