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Also, it was one hundred and ten degrees in the shade, and theshade was a surge
of flies. The critical centre of Syria in allages had been the Yarmuk Valley,
Hauran, and Deraa.
The exploder was in a formidable locked white box, very
heavy.
Dark stains ran down the shadowed front for hundreds of feet,like
accidents of use. His low-spoken words were caught by some trick distinctly in
my waterpool.
The efficiency of our forces was the personalefficiency of the
single man. Stokes was a stocky English yeoman, workmanlike and silent;always
watching for an order to obey. Lewis replied that he was looking for just this
strangeness of life. We joined one up with our box, and when the handle was
crasheddown it popped off beautifully. Another distinguishing feature might be
high explosives.
Maan was a special command, under Behjet, the old G.
I decided
also to revive the old idea of mining a train.
Syria remained a vividly
coloured racial and religiousmosaic. They bombed the horse lines and stampeded
theanimals, visited the tents and scattered the Turks.
Lewis replied that he
was looking for just this strangeness of life.
I asked if he had found lifegood
enough to thank his haphazard parents for bringing him into it? Stent looked
over the remaining petrol and bombs, and decided they wereenough for one more
effort. The talk and leisure weretoo plentiful and had revived old jealousies.
Snagge gave them quarters in his ship, since we had, asyet, no convenient
English camp ashore. In such frictionless habit ofinfluence his own nature lay
hid, unnoticed. At the top, the waterfall, el Shellalaas the Arabs named it,
was only a few yards away. Landscapes, in childhoods dream, were so vast and
silent. We knew only the very long way by Wadi Itm.
In areal sense maximum
disorder was our equilibrium.
I asked if he had found lifegood enough to thank
his haphazard parents for bringing him into it?
So he gave directions to
everyone to lookfor the battery which had troubled them in the morning. At the
top, the waterfall, el Shellalaas the Arabs named it, was only a few yards
away. Snagge gave them quarters in his ship, since we had, asyet, no convenient
English camp ashore.
Full of vexation, I swung round into Audas tent.
Long
beforenoon they were back in Kuntilla. Lewis replied that he was looking for
just this strangeness of life. We rode up the slope, crashing our way through
thebrittle undergrowth. The internal economy of our raiding parties achieved
irregularity andextreme articulation.
>From this rock a silver runlet issued
into the sunlight. The verbal poverty of their Rome-borrowed name indicated
apolitical disintegration. Weshould use the smallest force in the quickest time
at the farthestplace. Feisal landed, and with himJaafar, his staff, and Joyce,
the fairy godmother. Thirty bombs weredropped: one silenced the battery, the
others killed dozens of men andanimals.
Our tactics should be tip and run:
notpushes, but strokes.
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