Note 100 — Chapter XXIV · HOSPITALITY
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Layard, op. cit. p. 317 sq. Burckhardt says (Bedouins and Wahábys, p. 72) that one of the most common oaths in the domestic life of the Bedouins is “to take hold with one hand of the wasat, or middle tent-pole, and to swear ‘by the life of this tent and its owners.’”