Should the caravanserai be a small one, the merchants and their goods alone find place within, the beasts of burden being left outside.
When, as sometimes happens, those revenues have been dissipated by peculation, neglect or change of times, the caravanserai passes through downward stages of dilapidation to total ruin (of which only too many examples may be seen) unless some new charity intervene to repair and renew it.