Show ARE MASTERS OF evasiveness bedouins Bedou ins answer typical ortho peo pie of the east in tho the far east cast when ren men converse together an evasion la Is equal to an answer riding hiding down to egypt over the old caravan route from jerusalem to cairo norman duncan and a party pitched their tents outside a bedouin village and by so doing offended against the laws of hospitality which the people so religiously maintain mr duncan wrIt writing IngAn in harpers magazine says that he be was obliged to turn aside their reproaches and avold avoid the abominable abom anable quarters which were still st being offered turning to hla bla guide he said the man must be diverted ask him it tho the world Is round or flat the reply was a pure philosophers jewel of the east it the world ts Is flat came the response after heavy pondering 1 I am content if it Is round it Is by gods and the men applauded in their pleasure forgetting their injury forgetting everything except the joyous native craft of words |