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Show (TO HU CONTINUED.) Follow Line of Vegetation. The great noinnd tribes of western Asia, to whom we give the generic term of Bedouin, spend the winter months In central Arabia, which Is their homestead; but as spring approaches ap-proaches they start slowly northward with their women folk ond their tents, their camels, horses and sheep, following fol-lowing the receding line of vegetation until summer finds them In the Kurdish Kurd-ish foothills. With autumn the southward south-ward trek bet-Ins, so that, by keeping keep-ing almost constantly on the move, they are able to provide their beasts with puftumge the year round. As the Bedouins' sole source of wealth Is In their nnlmnls, the necessity of providing them with food, rather than any Inherent love for wandering, Impels Im-pels them to lend their curious nomadic no-madic existence. E. Alexander Pow-i'll Pow-i'll In Harper's Magazine. |