QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
What climatic factors prevent these countries from being regions of great production?
How do climate and soil affect the character of the wool clip?
How do Arabian horses compare with American thorough-bred stock with respect to usefulness?—how do they compare with the mustang stock?
Why is Khaibar Pass regarded as the key to India?
FOR COLLATERAL READING AND REFERENCE
From a cyclopædia (or from McCarthy's History of Our Own Times) read an account of the British disaster at Kabul.
Study, if possible, one or more rugs of the following kinds, noting the colors, designs, and warp of each: Bokhara (antique and modern), Anatolian, Kermanshah, and Baluchistan.