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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4460, 30 January 1917, Page 5

The Bedouin, one of the desert tribes of Egypt, is evidently .a poor specimen of humanity accoidit o ‘ letter published m the Manav atu Standard from Tpr. P. W. of lion goto a. The hooper says th iat the Bedouins are a wild i ace a * bad lot andl do a lot of spying for the Turks ’ “The Bedouin is,the worst 'tv tie of men I have ever semi,” says the writer “He is worse looking than Se Australian black. It Is a mystery “w be lives. Of course. -tiro dates are ripe he is'well fed, but ulien the dates are finished I think he must 'live on the sand. To give some idea of what ho is like, I need onl> say that these devils have been known to come along at night, dig up the. dead, strip them of tfheir clothing, and leave them, on the sand. We were never lucky enough to catch any of the iinhuman creatures, or I guess they would not disturb another soldier in his grave.”