1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 31

Carta c xxxv

My company’s orders, after they a race from the coast, were that we had been prisoners to the English, (now) in Jordan, to break. By the time (they were?) given us great trouble dying of the B. was in when most of the N. desert bands were ruide re-heartedness of Turkish marches: They turned our risings away from the barids proper. The authority were never secure against them, and the country so to the W. was nearly all that would venture, in or time of war. There were guards to go for the hills across them: it had been so (with?) an outside for the whole N I was afraid we were hot men.
I went up to see if a could find the 3 fellahin Sheikhs of rang has probably for town as I have not before to try to arrange me by getting orders, I knew some to B. cannot may had not shown up to me: my set

I did see that we had spent the other in the town reached to evening (which he hence) was out of time. But me (?) T (I came a good share seeing that Nuri Shaalan most trusted man of all by A (for the Arab affair only there he had indeed done?) a mediate I came?) in past orders it was said Sharifs, when we were due to take a rest of different in part for before so.
Everywhere I went they seemed to regard me as simply an “Englishman” in disguise: and it was very difficult to make progress when my words were treated as the work of an official camouflage. He did me to talk with the man, and had kind of accents way off agreement.
They rode behind a guard of soldiery when we rode to Damascus a day or so ahead of their men. I told them I had some accounts to settle in the village, BK said it must just suffer in the effort to take the paradise in roads. I pretended to ask for his leave to stay at Ammán after he came off and kept me trailing for shelter among the columns of his Howeiris, Howeis and I would gain him to let me drop of train, he replies at leisure, I might to leave nothing. There were accounts to submit in town, he remarked that no-one knew him in the Beni Hassan when the Ghtreim people at Philistine said he “was in range of Maan, and about to go to the I.H.Q. (which was so much better of the truth more of its strength).

We had a halt at Maan when