The muezzin pointed out to me the location of Jericho, of Kerak in Moab, and Es-Salt in the country of Ammon.

We sighted the stone walls of El-Kerak at about midafternoon, and rode up to the place through a savage gorge that must have been impregnable in the old days of bows and arrows.

I will hold my tongue in El-Kerak like a tomb that has not been plundered!"

It had remained then for himAbdul Ali of Damascus and of El-Kerak the same individual who was now urging them to strike for their own advantageto take the first step for the establishment in El-Kerak of a school that should be independent of the British.

Therefore, when the illustrious Sheikh Abdul Ali of Damascus urged a raid on the one hand, and boasted of provision for a school in El-Kerak on the other, it would be well to examine this foreign effendi, whom Abdul Ali claimed to have introduced.

The question is, are you men?are you Arabs?are you true Moslems? or do you like to look down from these heights of El-Kerak over the home of your ancestors in the hands of so-called Zionists who are nothing but Jews, under a new name?" He sat down before any one could answer him, and whispered to Ali Shah al Khassib, who called on another man to speak at once.

There will be no objection to that, because it is already decided you will remain in El-Kerak until after theerraid.

Thanks to you old Anazeh got into El-Kerak with twenty men.

" I wrote down the simple statement that I wished to go to El-Kerak for personal reasons, and that I waived all claim against the British Administration for personal protection, whether there or en route.