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[Deitrich C. <woo...@we...>]

Ched parallel with the living stream. A party of Arab horsemen were
reclining on a little hill with their spears stuck in the ground
watching their people pass. We rode up to them, and their chief received
us with great courtesy, and urged us to await the arrival of the cavalry
with the Sheikh, to whom I had once done a favour which they remembered.
We remained about an hour, and still the stream flowed past. The Arabs
told us they had begun to move at an early hour, and would continue on
the march for days, and as far as we could see, looking north and south,
the procession was without break or pause. They told us they could bring
into the field 100,000 fighting men, and their people, they said, was
"like the sand of the sea." Never before or since have I seen such a
swarm of human beings--"a multitude that no man could number." Any
trans-Jordanic colony would have to calculate on the proximity of this
horde, wh