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

£ 24 Bcdoitin Tribes of the EtLphrates. [ch, xx.
all sorts of attentions, besides coming to dine with
ns in our tent this evening. I fear, however, that
the incident will
not have improved our prospects
with Beteyen of getting his mare. But no matter.
Before o^ivins; Meshiir the revolver, Wilfrid made him
promise that he would never use it against Faris.
This Meshur readily did, for, he said, Faris and he
were already friends, though they had never met.
Ghanim has been round all the camps with the
mares, to beg for water, and got a little
here and a
little there, but the Anazeh seem to give themselves
very little
trouble about carrying water with them.
The only person who had any quantity to spare
was Ibn Kardush, sheykh of the Mesekha. Others
had given milk or lebben, which the mares drank,
but they like water better. The Sleb have disappeared
from our camp, so our plan of going with
them has fallen through. It is very tiresome. We
shall now have to make a long march nearly due
north, to a well called Boharra, not ten miles south
of Tudmur, and all out of our way—but water we
must have to-morrow.
Aiyril 10.—We have had a long thirsty march today,
though not altogether a dull one.
1 am sorry to say that we did not part friends
with Beteyen. He was jealous, I suppose, of the
favour Meshur has found in our eyes, and of the
presents we have given him, and at parting this
morning, he made a sort of begging speech to ]\Ir,
S., who told him he ought to be ashamed of himself