Entering Damascus

[tr ed p 644], photograph, 203 x 154 mm

Photograph from Lawrence's own camera.

'Entering Damascus' typeset brc in border. Mass of Arabs, some mounted on horses and with guns. Reproduced in black and white, with border of natural paper colour.

p 636 [tr ed p 644] - 'A galloping horseman checked at our head-cloths in the car, with a merry salutation, holding out a bunch of yellow grapes. "Good news: Damascus salutes you." He came from Shukri.

'Nasir was just beyond us: to him we carried the tidings, that he might have the honourable entry, a privilege of his fifty battles. With Nuri Shaalan beside him, he asked a final gallop from his horse, and vanished down the long road in a cloud of dust, which hung reluctantly in the air between the water splashes.'

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