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We pass mosques in total darkness and they too are silent and white, with a slight bluish tint cast on them by the moon.

And sometimes, between the houses, there are little enclosed spaces, like narrow gardens, but which can have no possible verdure.

And in these gardens numbers of little obelisks rise from the sand--white obelisks, it is needless to say, for to-night we are in the kingdom of absolute whiteness.