The Amalekites had not as yet intermingled with the Ishmaelites, and their Beduin blood was still pure.

In the desert of the south were the Amalekite Beduin, ever ready to raid and murder their settled neighbours.

There half-savage Beduin tribes were scattered about over the deserts, and there some of the worst slave-dealers had their haunts.

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.

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.