Images of Bedouin nomads from around the Syrian desert (Badiyat al-Sham) taken in 1898. Images are in order:
1. A young Bedouin woman, 1898
2. Bedouin men play a leapfrog-like game during a wedding celebration, 1898
3. A young Bedouin woman, 1898
4. Bedouins at the Tomb of Lazarus near Jerusalem, 1898
A widely quoted Bedouin apothegm is "I am against my brother, my brother and I are against my cousin, my cousin and I are against the stranger." This saying signifies a hierarchy of loyalties based on the proximity of oneself, beginning with the self and proceeding through the nuclear family and then the tribe, then to an entire genetic or linguistic group