Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates Vol 2 - The Search For Mecca

242 Bcdcmhi Tribes of the Eiiphrates. [ch. xxvir.
sion five lives were claimed, because five men of the
Eotila had talvcii part in killing ]\Iitbakli.
The tales of throat-cutting told by Mr. Palgrave
and others may be true of the tribes he visited, but
are not true of the Auazeli or Shammar. The report
of j^risoners having been thus murdered by the
Eoala, which reached us at Aleppo, turned out on
investigation to be entirely unfounded, and the
event justified
the disbelief in them at the time l)y
all who knew the Bedouins.