MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



If you yawn they think you are tired, and 

 will leave you so that you can sleep. Nothing 

 would induce them to enter your tent until you 

 had entered it. If a Bedouin tells you the 

 breed of a horse, or mare, you can bet it is true. 

 They believe in just a plain simple God, and 

 think that if they do right God will be easy to 

 please. They marry as many as four wives, 

 and think they are happy. When one is di- 

 vorced she is kept by the tribe. Morally they 

 are of the highest type. They don't inter- 

 marry with colored slaves. They seldom, if 

 ever, marry out of their tribes. A Bedouin 

 girl could not, or would not, marry the tribe's 

 blacksmith, because of the disgrace of marry- 

 ing a man who works for his living. 



The Bedouin women are much like the 

 squaws of the American Indians. They are 

 seldom seen unless when packing the camels at 

 moving time. They disfigure their faces by 

 tattooing, and all of them stain the lips blue, 

 which is a sign of beauty. Though they have 

 to do the cooking they are never seen around 

 the tents. The men stroll here and there as if 

 they belonged to some great club, which in a 

 way they do. Their Sheikh's tent is their club 

 and there they go and come at will. There 



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