None of Abd al Muttalib's sons inherited the nature of their father, and with his death the greatness of the house of Hashim diminished, until it gave place to the Omeyya branch, with Harb at its head.

From the appearance of the group, they look like Beni Harb people'Sons of Fighting' you knowthough I didn't expect we'd sight any of that breed so far to westward.

"Yes, those are Beni Harb men.

When we drift in range, give the Beni Harb a few trays of blanks.

They have a proverb: 'Feed the Beni Harb, and they will fire at Allah!'

All I regret, however, is that in a crippled condition we have to face a war-party of the Beni Harb.

Since then I have lusted revenge on the Beni Harb!"

"About twenty minutes from now, at this rate," he added, "some of the Beni Harb will have reason to remember you.

"Waste no time in wishing the Beni Harb future pain, my dear Lieutenant.

Both men studied the Beni Harb.

Scornfully he flung a hand at the Beni Harb.

"'In rice, strength; in the Beni Harb, manhood!'" Nearer the land, ever sagging down but still afloatthough now at times some of the heavier surges broke in foam over the rail of the lower gallerythe Eagle of the Sky drifted on, on.

That is a familiar trick with these dog-people of the Beni Harb.

The Beni Harb, keenly intelligent, sensed either that they were being fired at with blanks, or that the marksmanship aboard the air-liner was execrable.

These tactics seemed to have disconcerted the Beni Harb.

Firing ceased, from the Beni Harb.

Close by came Rrisa, his brown face contracted with fanatic hate of the Beni Harb, despoilers of the Haram sanctuary.

A ragged fire from the Beni Harb lent speed to their efforts.

Parthian fighters though these Beni Harb were, they surely were well stocked with munitions and they meant stern business.

The nearest white settlement is Rio de Oro, about a hundred miles to southward; and even if we could reach that, harassed by the Beni Harb, we might all be executed there, as pirates.

Others of the Beni Harb will come; there will be gathering of the tribes.

That fire must not burn, M'almé!" "Nor must the Beni Harb live!"

Just where they should come upon the Beni Harb, in that confused jumble of dunes and nullahs (ravines) they could not tell; nor yet did they know the exact distance separating the Legion's trenches from the enemy.

Kloof, Daimamoto, Sheffield, and Beziers, all of whom had lost their lives in the battle with the Beni Harb, were soon buried on the beach by the hungry, thirsty, sand-penetrated Legionaries.

All his people of the Beni Harb lie dead far toward the great waters, on the edge of the desert of the sea.