But the doura rises higher than the heads of the naked children who stand among it to watch you canter past. |
The peasants in their gay-coloured clothing are ploughing the rich, red-brown soil for the late crop of doura. |
The mountains drew farther apart, revealing in their place numerous villages, and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane. |
Giraffes and antelopes and ostriches are provided with the doura corn that grows in the interior. |
As I turned, far off in Cairo I saw the first lights glittering across the fields of doura, silvery white, like diamonds. |
Iraqi crowds are pictured outside an ancient Chaldean monastery in the Baghdad suburb of Al Doura on Sunday. |