Our way next led us through a mighty gorge between the mountains.
There were high, rocky cliffs on either side, and a stream running
among the stones at the bottom of it.
This ravine we clambered through for five or six miles, passing on the
way an Arab village of flat-roofed mud huts perched on the side of the
cliffs like swallows' nests.
And not far from them were holes and caves in the cliffs in which some
of the Arab tribes lived. Many of them were so difficult to get at
that the inhabitants got to them by means of ropes lowered down over
the edge of the cliff.
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