ABSTRACT
The reason for this premature decay must be looked for in their way of life. From childhood up, they have been in hard training, eating but once a day, and then sparingly, aild sleeping on the ground. This ensures them high health and a full enjoyment of all their faculties, at the time, but uses the body rapidly; and a certain " staleness" follows, which the Bedouins acknowledge by withdrawing early from all unnecessary exertion. There is little work in the desert for men which needs to be done; and, once the love of enterprise and excitement over, there is no reason for any but the poorest to go far from his tent.* Political intrigue or a love of
ment of living, a Bedouin in all probability gets as much out of his few years as we do out of our many.
