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...great migration into enemy grazing grounds. The entire tribe of 35,000 with 350,000 camels, moved north into Syria. A movement so vast had international complications. French scouting planes flew overhead; raiding automobiles harried the tribe on the march. In a desperate move, Faris and Carl Raswan, representing Amir Fuaz, drove into the enemy grounds of the Fid'an to ask permission for the Ruala to graze there. Received suspiciously, threatened with death, they threw themselves on the hospitality of the Fid'an, who were thus compelled to let them go uninjured. To their astonishment...
...learn their history and the secrets of their breeding, found his task greatly simplified when the 8-year-old son of his host accidentally hit him between the eyes with a stone from his slingshot. Worried because he had drawn the blood of his father's guest, little Amir Fuaz childishly made Carl Raswan his blood-brother in a desert ceremony which pledged man and boy to a life-long tie. Amir Fuaz grew up, became leader of the Ruala, respected his pledge even when, years later, he discovered his European blood-brother in the ranks of enemy raiders...
...Arabia after the War he was given as guide and traveling companion Faris ibn Naif es-Sa'bi, gentle-eyed, black-bearded Bedouin nobleman, "the truest friend I have ever known.'' With Faris he drove from Damascus over the hard, dry, gravel uplands in search of Amir Fuaz, witnessed the unfolding of Faris' romance with a young shepherdess, Tuema, encountered on the way. When the two travelers pledged Tuema their protection, she let them sleep in her tent without fear, knowing that they would not break their word. Later Carl Raswan learned to understand why Bedouins...
...General (in charge of customs) notice and bounce the leading German banker in Persia, pompous Herr Doktor Horschitz-Horst. The National Bank then became 100% Persian under a Director who. besides being His Majesty's personal favorite, has thoroughly studied banking methods abroad. His Excellency Riza Ghuli Khan Amir Chosrowi...
With his son King Feisal of Irak supporting one arm, and with his other son the Amir Abdullah of Transjordania supporting his other arm, forlorn former King Hussein of the Hejaz landed in Palestine last week, en route from his exile on the Island of Cyprus to Amman, capital of Transjordiana. Object: needed medical attention...