hen proceeded to BAGHDAD and AMMAN. Godspeed was almost afraid of butterflies. They sickened him during the breeding season when they swarmed around any source of water in the viceregal district where he was born. The day was hot and everything was green. He saw that the puddles were moving and the cars were crushing butterflies and the roads were moving too because the butterflies were slowly dying on the roads. Everything moved around him. The leaves on the trees swayed not from the wind but from butterflies. Butterflies were everywhere alive on the blooming lilacs and dead on the roads. He ordered
