bedouin's

Traveling on camelback, he experienced the bedouin's "hard and merciless life, always hungry and usually thirsty":

Homage to Oman 1997

No European cares to linger about these precincts after dusk; here lie the dead, in thick-strewn graves; here the jackal roams at night -- it thrusts its pointed snout through the ephemeral masonry of townsmen's tombs or scratches downward within the ring of stones that mark some poor bedouin's corpse, to take toll of the carrion horrors beneath; so you may find many graves rifled.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910