Book Passage Meme

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next 3 sentences.
Post the name of the book and the author.

"After cross-questioning them we decided to send four sections that way, and the other five by the hills: in such a fashion we thought we should arrive soonest and safest at Abu Zereibat.

The route was not easy to decide with the poor help of the Musa Juheina, our informants. They seemed to have no unit of time smaller than the half-day, or of distance between the span and the stage; and a stage might be from six to sixteen hours according to the man's will and camel."

From Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence

I am in love with reading this book. It also doesn't hurt to picture Lawrence and Feisal as Ralph Fiennes and Alexander Siddig, as seen here in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia.