. With the Beduins, a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria . at desert dwell many of the Arabians who are called Beduins, . . who are people full of all evil conditions, . . and they are strong and warlike men, . . and they are right felonious and foul, and of a cursed nature.—Sir John Mandeville, 1322. WE turned back again then to the sandy hillockspartly covered with scrub from which we hademerged but the day before, when journeyinghopefully towards Wady Musa. How glad we hadbeen to get past this country and to begin the ascent !Now it seemed more desolate
. With the Beduins, a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria . at desert dwell many of the Arabians who are called Beduins, . . who are people full of all evil conditions, . . and they are strong and warlike men, . . and they are right felonious and foul, and of a cursed nature.—Sir John Mandeville, 1322. WE turned back again then to the sandy hillockspartly covered with scrub from which we hademerged but the day before, when journeyinghopefully towards Wady Musa. How glad we hadbeen to get past this country and to begin the ascent !Now it seemed more desolate than ever. After ridingfor some time along a deep hollow in the burnt-upsandy hills, we again caught sight of the wide openplain of the Ghor. To the east rose the bare moun-tains, and all around us spread the desolate sands. Not atrace of a living thing was to be seen. But journeyingnorthwards we passed along a depression full ofimmense reeds with plume-like tops; an openingappeared, and we again found the spring (Ain el Beda),bubbling up in the midst of a dense vegetation. The.
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