CHAPTER XIX 



THE BEDOUIN OF THE DESERT HIS SON AND 



HIS DAUGHTER, HIS CATTLE AND THE STRAN- 

 GER THAT IS WITHIN HIS GATES 



The desert Bedouin is to the Ottoman Em- 

 pire what our Indians were to North America. 

 He is of two kinds — the agriculturist and the 

 warrior who carries the lance. The two 

 classes are in great contrast, but when you 

 have seen both you incline towards the former 

 notwithstanding all the poetry and glamor 

 which attach to the fighter. Despite their 

 racial likeness you can see the difference be- 

 tween them at once. The agriculturist is, of 

 course, the more domestic. He stays pretty 

 much in one place and is content with a mud 

 house and a few camels, and maybe a mare or 

 two. He is apt to have many sheep, and long- 

 eared black goats, and possibly ten or twenty 

 head of strange-looking cattle, together with a 

 few chickens and turkeys. He is a much kind- 



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