CHAPTER I A Modern Arabian Knight

II In Search of a Lost Civilization

III The Archaeologist Turned Soldier

IV The Cult of the Blood of Mohammed

V The Fall of Jeddah and Mecca

VI The Gathering of the Desert Tribes

VII The Battle at the Wells of Abu El Lissal

VIII The Capture of King Solomon’s Ancient Seaport

IX Across the Red Sea to Join Lawrence and Feisal

X The Battle of Seil El Hasa

XI Lawrence the Train-Wrecker

XII Drinkers of the Milk of War

XIII Auda Abu Tayi, the Bedouin Robin Hood

XIV Knights of the Black Tents

XV My Lord the Camel

XVI Abdullah the Pock-Marked, and the Story of Ferraj and Daoud

XVII An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth

XVIII A Rose-Red City Half as Old as Time

XIX A Bedouin Battle in a City of Ghosts

XX The Relative in My House

XXI Through the Turkish Lines in Disguise

XXII The Greatest Hoax Since the Trojan Horse

XXIII A Cavalry Naval Engagement and Lawrence’s Last Great Raid

XXIV The Downfall of the Ottoman Empire

XXV Lawrence Rules in Damascus, and the Treachery of the Algerian Emir

XXVI Tales of the Secret Corps

XXVII Joyce & Co., and the Arabian Knights of the Air

XXVIII Feisal and Lawrence at the Battle of Paris

XXIX Lawrence Narrowly Escapes Death; Adventures of Feisal and Hussein

XXX Lawrence Flees from London, and Feisal becomes King in Bagdad

XXXI The Secret of Lawrence’s Success

XXXII The Art of Handling Arabs

XXXIII Lawrence the Man

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

Colonel T. E. Lawrence, the Mystery Man of Arabia.

_Frontispiece_

The “Uncrowned King” of the Arabs on the Governor’s balcony in Jerusalem

General Ronald Storrs, Governor of the Holy City, and modern successor to Pontius Pilate

Date-palms along the coral shore of Araby

Lawrence at headquarters in Cairo

The archaeologist and poet who turned soldier

Map of the region covered by this narrative

A Muezzin calling the faithful to prayer

Hussein I

Emir Feisal, now King of Mesopotamia (Irak)

In his white robes Lawrence looked like a prophet

The dreamer whose dreams came true

A Sheik of Araby

Shore-line at the head of the Gulf of Akaba

Sunset over the fort at Akaba

Sand storm rolling down on Khartoum

The last resting-place of the mother of us all

The Waldorf-Astoria of Arabia

The mosque of the Holy Kaaba

Colonel Lawrence and the author

Panorama of Akaba

Colonel Joyce

Lawrence’s mountain guns in action

Lawrence confers with Arab Nationalist leaders from Bagdad and Damascus

The author, with Lawrence in Arabia

Sheik Auda Abu Tayi, the Bedouin Robin Hood

A Bedouin encampment

Colonel Lawrence conferring with Commander D. G. Hogarth, one of his advisers at the Arab Bureau in Cairo

Colonel Joyce, Commander of the Arab “regulars”

Armored cars in Holy Arabia

A racing dromedary from India

A baby dromedary two hours old

An Arab thoroughbred

“Sidi” Lawrence and his “sons”

“Drinkers of the milk of war”

Feisal and Lawrence conferring with Bedouin sheiks

Sunset over the mountain of Edom

Our caravan approaching the “Lost City”

The narrow defile that leads to the “Lost City”

A rose-red temple carved like a cameo from the face of the mountain

We rode into the auditorium on our camels

“Pharaoh’s Treasury” or the “Temple of Isis”

Looking out through the doorway of the temple, in the distance we see the narrow defile through which we came in entering the “Lost City”

An amphitheater hewn out of the mountain

The rock seemed to swirl like watered silk

The “Three-storied Temple”

Emir Feisal, center, with General Nuri to the left and Colonel Lawrence to the right; Captain Pisani of the French Mission standing directly behind the Emir

Field-Marshall Viscount Allenby of Jerusalem and King Feisal of Bagdad

Malud Bey and his Arab cavalry

“The Tomb of the Roman soldiers”

The author sketched by James McBey, official artist for Allenby’s forces in the Holy Land

An Arab Apollo

A peasant woman of Syria

Types of city head-dress for women

Where the hosts of Israel are said to have terminated the passage of the Red Sea

A brigand from Jebel Druz

Lawrence would occasionally disguise himself as a gypsy woman of Syria

“Shereef” Lawrence

A camel caravan in the Wadi Arabia

Bedouin “irregulars” ready for a raid on the Turks

Mr. Chase opening fire with his cinema camera from the turret of an armored car

General Jafaar Pasha from Bagdad

Druses from the Hauran

Tallal El-Hareidhin of Tafas

A Syrian villager

Col. T. E. Lawrence

General Fakri Pasha, the Turkish Tiger who defended Medina

The king-maker

Sunset in the land of the Arabian Knights

WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA

WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA