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Volume 3 187 |
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ONE OF "THE PEOPLE OF THE CAMEL" |
SORROWFUL LABOUR AMID PETRA'S RUINS OF JOY AND SPLENDOUR |
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| Beduins of the inner desert are a fine, proud people, generally of commanding figure, erect, lithe, and taut as steel, with a stamp of nobility set on their features by generations of freedom | As this peasant woman turns her little, old-fashioned hand mill, she sees around her that marvellous wreck of Northern Arabian power in the pagan age, which Macedonians and Romans tried in vain for centuries to conquer. Her people are now so lacking in courage that they have to share their crops with the war-like Beduins who control the surrounding desert |