The Amalekites had not as yet intermingled with the Ishmaelites, and their Beduin blood was still pure.
2
In the desert of the south were the Amalekite Beduin, ever ready to raid and murder their settled neighbours.
3
There half-savage Beduin tribes were scattered about over the deserts, and there some of the worst slave-dealers had their haunts.
4
A windy business... Beduin on camels will make a meal of any civilized camel-corps: or of infantry in the open: or of cavalry anyhow.
5
The earliest of Egyptian rock-sculptures is engraved in the peninsula, and represents Snefru, the founder of the fourth dynasty, slaughtering the Beduin who inhabited it.