Excerpt from Narrative of the Residence of Fatalla Sayeghir: Among the Wandering Arabs of the Great Desert WE were encamped in the midst of the desert which'extends from Tiberias to Nazareth, and were speaking of the Arab tribes we had met in the day, of their manners, and the connexions between them and with the great population by Whom they are surrounded. We endeavoured to elucidate the mystery of their origin, their des tiny, and that astonishing endurance of the spirit of race,.which separates this people from all other human families, and keeps them, like the Jews, not without the pale of civilization, but Within a civilization of their own, as unchangeable as granite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |