Ten generations in the States at any rate.

He can tell you all about this country.

Why not call on him ?" It did not need much intelligence to agree to that suggestion; but the British military take their code with them to the uttermost ends of earth, behind which they wonder why so many folks with different codes, or none, dislike them.
"Write me an introduction," I said.
"You won't need one.

Just call on him.

He lives at a place they call the junior Staff Officers' Mess--up beyond the Russian Convent and below the Zionist Hospital." So I went that evening, finding the way with difficulty because they talk at least eighteen languages in Jerusalem and, with the exception of official residences, no names were posted anywhere.
That was not an official residence.