Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates Vol 2 - The Search For Mecca

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gaging. It was tied up, as the custom is, by a rope
round the neck, while its mother was away grazing,
and neighed continually. It was very tame, however,
and let me stroke it, and sniffed at my pockets,
as if
it knew that there mi2;ht be some suo-ar there.
Ali showed us his mare, (not the foal's mother,) a dark
chestnut, Abeyeh Sherrak, a strong but rather plain
animal, which would pass as a "handsome cob " in
England.
Ferhdn's horse pleased us better, a threeyear-old,
Hadban IMshetib, which I preferred infinitely
to Jedaan's Kehilan Akliras.
The Ibn Hedeb were very anxious to retain us
with them, but we could not risk
by leaving him without saying goodbye ;
offending Jedaan,
so we have
promised to come again, and rode home to the
Wady-el-Helbe in a storm of Jiail and rain.
A'pril G.—Lightning in the night and a threaten-
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