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  is more effective than logical exposition: they dislike concise expression. Their minds work just
  as ours do, but on different premises. There is nothing unreasonable, incomprehensible,
  or inscrutable in the Arab. Experience of them and knowledge of their prejudices will enable you
  to foresee their attitude and possible course of action in nearly every case.
  24. Do not mix Bedu and Syrians, or trained men and tribesmen. You will get work out of neither,
  for they hate each other. I have never seen a successful combined operation, but many failures.
  In particular, ex-officers of the Turkish army, however Arab in feelings and blood and language,
  are hopeless with Bedu. They are narrow minded in tactics, unable to adjust themselves
  to irregular warfare, clumsy in Arab etiquette, swollen-headed to the extent of being incapable
  of politeness to a tribesman for more than a few minutes, impatient, and, usually, helpless without
  their troops on the road and in action. Your orders (if you were unwise enough to give any) would
  be more readily obeyed by Bedouins than those of any Mohammedan Syrian officer. Arab
  townsmen and Arab tribesmen regard each other mutually as poor relations, and poor relations are
  much more objectionable than poor strangers.
  25. In spite of ordinary Arab example, avoid too free talk about women. It is as difficult a subject
  as religion, and their standards are so unlike our own that a remark, harmless in English, may
  appear as unrestrained to them, as some of their statements would look to us, if translated literally.
  26. Be as careful of your servants as of yourself. If you want a sophisticated one you will probably
  have to take an Egyptian, or a Sudani, and unless you are very lucky he will undo on trek much
  of the good you so laboriously effect. Arabs will cook rice and make coffee for you, and leave you
  if required to do unmanly work like cleaning boots or washing. They are only really possible
  if you are in Arab kit. A slave brought up in the Hejaz is the best servant, but there are rules
  against British subjects owning them, so they have to be lent to you. In any case, take with you an
  Ageyli or two when you go up country. They are the most efficient couriers in Arabia,
  and understand camels.
  27. The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them. Keep
  always on your guard; never say an unnecessary thing: watch yourself and your companions all
  the time: hear all that passes, search out what is going on beneath the surface, read their
  characters, discover their tastes and their weaknesses and keep everything you find out
  to yourself. Bury yourself in Arab circles, have no interests and no ideas except the work in hand,
  so that your brain is saturated with one thing only, and you realize your part deeply enough
  to avoid the little slips that would counteract the painful work of weeks. Your success will be
  proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it."