The Bedoween is a shepherd ⚫ without all the innocence of that character. The facility of passing rapidly over extensive tracts of country, renders him awanderer. He becomes greedy from want, and a robber from greediness. A plunderer rather than a warrior, he possesses no sanguinary courage; he attacks only to despoil; and if he meets with no resistance, never thinks a small booty is to be put incompetition with his life. To irritate him, you must shed his blood; in which case he is as obstinate in his vengeance, as he was cautious in avoiding danger.

Not withstanding the depredations on strangers, among themselves, the Bedoweens are remarkable for a good faith, a disinterestedness, a generosity which would do honor to the most civilized people. What is there more noble than the right of asylum, so respected among all the tribes; a stranger, nay, even an enemy, touches the tent of the Bedoween, and from that instant his person is inviolable. Itwould be reckoned a disgraceful meanness, an indelible shame, to satisfy even a just vengeance, at the expense of hospitality. Has the Bedoween consented to eat bread and salt with his guest, nothing can induce him to betray him. The Bedoweens, so rapacious without his camp, has no sooner set his foot within it, than he becomes liberal and generous