Wilfred Thesiger Quotes

I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept, Small Tents On Which I Had Happened In The Syrian Desert And Where I Had Spent The Night. Gaunt Men In Rags And Hungry-looking Children Had Greeted Me, And Bade Me Welcome With The Sonorous Phrases Of The Desert. Later They Had Set A Great Dish Before Me, Rice Heaped Round A Sheep Which They Had Slaughtered, Over Which My Host Poured Liquid Golden Butter Until It Flowed Down On To The Sand; And When I Protested, Saying 'Enough! Enough!', Had Answered That I Was A Hundred Times Welcome. Their Lavish Hospitality Had Always Made Me Uncomfortable, For I Had Known That As A Result Of It They Would Go Hungry For Days. Yet When I Left Them They Had Almost Convinced Me That I Had Done Them A Kindness By Staying With Them

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

Wilfred Thesiger Quotes: I Pondered On This Desert Hospitality And, Compared It With Our Own. I Remembered Other Encampments Where I Had Slept,

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