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Excerpt from Around Afghanistan
There is no nobler passion than the passion for travel ling. I mean by this the strong, healthy passion which forces a man away from the comforts of the fireside, causing him to endure every fatigue and to brave every peril, not only that he may come to know the manifold and changing world, may live a new life in the sunshine of distant shores, may taste the intoxication of long voyages, the overwhelming delight of remoteness, the pleasure of lonely hours under new skies, but that he may study and describe strange countries, races, and civilisations, and may try to understand and to solve the great political and social problems which perplex the world.
An Arab, to whom I put the question why Moham med ordained the Mecca pilgrimage, replied In order to compel his sons to visit the holy places, but at the same time in order to take them, at least once in their lives, far from their birth-place. Wanderers are we. A town is to us a prison-house.
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