He was a lean dark-skinned Arab of the desert (...) and Saad studied his face for a moment, noticing is long, straight, Semitic nose, his short curly beard, and black smouldering eyes. He was a true son of the desert from the sandy wastes of the Hijaz, trained from his boyhood in the desert lore and with eyes as keen as an eagles. They would be able to perceive from an amazing distance any disturbance of the ground round the illicit excavations, and so detect the cave perhaps even from ground level.
John Allegro The Dead Sea Scrolls
O procurar de quem pudesse auxiliar na busca pela gruta onde se encontraram os primeiros manuscritos