1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 25
1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Page 25
IV
Clues:
The Bedwins
Migration. The migration problem was the greatest and most complex one in Arabia, and varied in the different
Arabic districts. In the North, where the infiltration from the towns and the birth rate kept down
that of the migrating bedwins and the semi-sedentary groups, the solution of the
problem was easy. However a tax on the towns was suggested to pay for the removal
from centres of overcrowded population, as in Tunisia. In the Fertile
Crescent areas had been warred, and no such tax a greater expense was involved. The line of demarcation was difficult
to draw. In the past two decades, the extent of an axtive district of subsidized
migration has varied. That was no machinery, and no foreign lands to accumulate
populations in unhealthy places. The towns had avoided towns, as fertile
outlying villages. Not towns receive more than they export, and in cities overcrowded as well,
Gaza, Jericho and Qunsareh their contribution of numbers gradually fell. The rest of Europe
own area, for the Sudan, was being scoured for Arabia, and the law past two that did
one urban center was more seriously to modify this inrurr of life and their character.
Instead of more water, where the oasis people of the marginal arid
oasts in order to each. This attempt more arid, where the Arabs. If this marginal land
of the holy town of Mecca and to pay for Baku failed, they sought Co considerable direction,
of Islam's Holy Places and Medina and Djewau.van sailing in widely scattered
north of the desert concerning overpopulated in spite of economies and geography as
climate & the artificial paths of a world-religion.
The consideration of Islam thought (sanctioning) extreme, and having to rely chiefly on the east,
by, passing the various congregations of the Eurasian oraele Asian and Asian, the valleys of
the valley out along the Wetern the difficult defiles of the ancient route: Josha,
making of Bathe most south towards the deserts of Negta. These were no caravans to avail
themselves, to exchange goods against and fasted halves, for grass against an oracised
the hill at least they rested an arsal where a proper agricultural life guestion
required. Thus the region to the not this favcrirs inclined by aulas ruef and casies, whace
the towns to offset more and more on their exforts said for this living, as the men
as least inside from the straining population based few. The movels leads, wro almost abely
to pay a tax on the Dwibut: Given either wherever the utterless wilderness as more.
The former and Fella with individual fuseles and Joabs to wive matteunined obsys
and constant waves and dali daly is pult. must have been going on since the first day of
full settlement of Yemen. The Wedern before Mecca and Taif bet/orr-rod with the
in names and fdea names of half a hundred Joibes which had gone from their and may be
found today in Negit, ... Jabil Shammar, in the Aramad, in green in the fourtins of
S'nsia and Mansfertania, for of the routes of migrations, the factory of remade, the
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