Lawrence’s Undergraduate Dissertation – Page 13

Journal Entry

Clouds of [illegible] buntang birds rose as off the tamarisk scrub, and soon were whiriling in puffs of heated dust raised by our horses’ feet. It put me in mind of the spring nesting the tribes make from Ageyla to the upland plauns, outwards. A backward and forward veering like this is not progress but but poverty a deep-seated complication of the Bedawi mind. Their solution seems (flitting or drifting?) through time and space, with the tides and the pastures, eddying, and lapsing.

Indeed there is no word in their tongue for “to possess”, as the English (and their lawyers) use the term. For them, things are made good by use and distribution. The only true propriety is [illegible].