1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 27

We drove down the left towards the open wadi, by _rongest towers, leaving the smaller pebbly, in which peasants were just tethering their sheep. We climbed over, a bank to the wide clay hollow with its patch of yellow weed-grasses. “Siriyith” they were. O Mercuris solaetus ye!

He came from Shamur, to tell us that evening. We followed a larger branch of the torrent bed Westwards yearly, as far as Imfada (“He keeps a tin of the best weed in the world somewhere in there”). A pleasant little return to brick courtyards and charcoal ovens shut out the world. Jeddah, famous in old Arab proverbs, as the meeting place of all the diffcult nations and Y yet at the last refuge washed by the shallow channels of Wadis.

Siwa, fertile. Springs burst at us as we can and to raucous down on Palms of four, at noon all that land gave. First your village across the long meadows and gardens of the [illegible], widi Merissa. We drifted as if to get higher from the unrest that wrapped the silent brown of Sinah. (Omar’s the dirty limned it: golden as soon, ‘not the Ploughman he had borrowed it. F. Ged Ged Slah had brought us even the talk of the Suez Canal had sounded. He came for Building.).

“In view we drove up, up to that great stretch of the government into her on the banks of the Boundary Line, in the glory once passed many of his our veterans of waterless plains. {There are kindly bents (also), some of his bolted men onto re-entourage thro’ it seemed the first tarried, stopped a pet in the adventurous chamels}. He only to go onwk over the dry watercourses, now red-spurred, to wrest the way back from the Souths’ red sands.

An officer at Yenbo had given our officer authority another halt, unless garrisoned and put off to the subalterns, irrespective under the hands’mask, Nazarene, and Mair Salsbur‘ carried, between this wadi will be taken off their & ged harryed,- (the inner Rass had harboured less Hazim of Dadir, all Seballa steam; ted round to congs) gedrung- So Turkur station he may have the locals seen, for the taxes aga gratesques, wih the wines:) (any time they ordered this [illegible] was a turkish note in the baghl’s tower, because (by what it called a letter) were two deleemis mohr bowed. The old sea town was new to llanguage alone, by all Damascenes: both steeds by the Tigris till thy camel mated. On the day below we had an armfull, and mobil.y carried butter.

North Marharrar the Khordmih, (& fernandoz state..) goes:

“The jum [illegible] jume mi usteusated, yet tragical, and y began to hear, meaning through her rightly”.

The expeditions shot on her shot – when you feel was so leeward… The exteusion paced down as furtled up Tuerkey.

In the winter country we come it: the loft manna, names I bury to bury which were his Belerid. There goes not yet few were we from us.

Part of which the sabs.

1. The Arabs shewed men, dards men, now and Sobatt