Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring painting

Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring paintingJohannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring paintingGustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting
the station wagon. "Second round to the archangel," Mirza Saeed thought.
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By the fifth week of the older pilgrims had deteriorated sharply, food supplies were running low, water was hard to find, and the children's tear ducts were dry. The vulture herds were never far away.
As the pilgrims left behind the rural areas and came towards more densely populated zones, the level of harassment increased. The long--distance buses and trucks often refused to deviate and the pedestrians had to leap, screaming and tumbling over each other, out of their way. Cyclists, families of six on Rajdoot motor--scooters, petty shop--keepers hurled abuse. "Crazies! Hicks! Muslims!" Often they were obliged to keep marching for an entire night because the authorities in this or that small town didn't want such riff-raff sleeping on their pavements. More deaths became inevitable.