Bedouins

Bedouins, literally dwellers in the desert, are Arabs who lead a nomadic life in the desert and subsist by the pasture of cattle and the rearing of horses, the one element that binds them into a unity being community of language, the Arabic namely, which they all speak with great purity and without variation of dialect. They are generally of small stature, of wiry constitution, and dark complexion, and are divided into tribes, each under an independent chief.