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1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of WisdomPage 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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