The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger, Jon Lee Anderson
By Wilfred Thesiger, Jon Lee Anderson
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She was a beautiful craft that could carry as many as twelve people. Thirty-six feet long but only three and a half feet at her widest beam, she was carvel-built, fiat-bottomed and covered outside with a smooth coating of bitumen over the wooden planks. The front swept forwards and upwards in a perfect curve to form a long, thin, tapering stem; the stern too rose in a graceful sweep. Two feet of the stern and of the bows were decked; there was a thwart a third of the way forward, and a strengthening beam across the boat two thirds of the way forward.
Mind you get a good one, and bring back six packets of cigarettes, and more sugar and tea. ' A large, heavily built man came in. He had a curiously indeterminate face, which had probably been handsome when he was a a boy but was now effeminate and flabby. Accompanied by his son of about fifteen, he greeted us and sat down. 'Come on, Ajram, lend a hand,' Sadam said to the boy, a cheerful-looking lad. 'Boil water for coffee. There it is in the big pot. Get a fire going; the qasab is over there in the corner.
Tell them to prepare lunch, and then go to the merchant and see if he has any fish. Mind you get a good one, and bring back six packets of cigarettes, and more sugar and tea. ' A large, heavily built man came in. He had a curiously indeterminate face, which had probably been handsome when he was a a boy but was now effeminate and flabby. Accompanied by his son of about fifteen, he greeted us and sat down. 'Come on, Ajram, lend a hand,' Sadam said to the boy, a cheerful-looking lad. 'Boil water for coffee.