310 THE SECRET OF SAHARA: KUFARA 



of "Mille Fleurs" drifted from her rose-petal skin. My 

 nails were broken, my nose blistered. My only European 

 dress had been hidden for months at the bottom of a 

 sack of bully beef tins, yet was I sincere when I echoed 

 Hassanein's vicious "Civilisation, Hamdulillah!" as he 

 stuffed his kufiya into a comer of his knapsack and pulled 

 out a fez! 



Daba-a, February 19, 1921, 



