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

en. XXI.] Goodbye to tJic Dcscii. i
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wheat sounded to our ears an affected lis]), with tlie
Syrian '' marahubhay AVe were once more within
the pale of Ottoman law, that half-way house
between desert freedom and the chains of Euro]ic.
Lastly, we met a man in Frankish clothes, with
rings on his fingers and speaking French, who told
us he was dragjoman to a forcio-D Consulate. AVe
hardly knew with what face to look at
and bald and skimjoily clothed he seemed.
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him, so bare
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The next morning ^ve rode into Damascus.