Strata

pencil, Kennington, 184 x 126 mm

'Strata. Chap. XC' typeset brc in border. Figure leading camel, battling against straight lines coming down in every direction from a cloud line. Above this, mountains and a caricature of Lawrence in the rock. Printed in grey on a background of palest pastel green; no border line drawn, but bordered by natural paper colour.

pp 480/1 [tr ed p 497] - 'The camel and I were over the plain in three hours; wonderful going: but our troubles were not ended. The snow was indeed as my guides had said, and completely hid the path, which wound uphill between walls and ditches, and confused piles of stone. It cost me an infinity of pain to turn the first two corners. Wodheiha, tired of wading to her bony knees in useless white stuff, began perceptibly to flag. However, she got up one more steep bit, only to miss the edge of the path in a banked place. We fell together some eighteen feet down the hill-side into a yard-deep drift of frozen snow. After the fall she rose to her feet whimpering and stood still, in a tremble.

'When he-camels so baulked, they would die on their spot, after days; and I feared that now I had found the limit of effort in she-camels. I plunged to my neck in front of her, and tried to tow her out, vainly.'

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