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`` Yes ; if papa will take me ; and mamma will go too . '' `` How many would like to go ? '' asked the captain , and everyone responding in favor of so doing the question was considered settled . They set out at their usual early hour , met Harold and Herbert in the Peristyle , lingered a little in the Court of Honor , then made their way to the Turkish village , went through the booths and bazaar , making a number of purchases , looked at the mosque and heard the noon cry of the muezzin . Then they visited an Arabian tent and the fac-simile of a house in Damascus . In the tent there were male and female Arabs sitting cross-legged ; some of them boiling coffee , or making thin wafer cakes , while others played on odd looking instruments and chanted in monotonous tones . The party went into the house , found that it contained but one room , oblong in shape , with high ceiling , and windows just beneath the cornice .