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

i6o Bedouin Tribes of the Etiphrates. [cii. xxir,
own countrymen. I am glad Mohammed did not
see them.
Our journey is over, and we are once more in
England, with no more tangible record of our
winter's adventures, and of the friends we made
in the desert, than Meshiir's pistols hung up over
the chimney-piece of the hall, and half-a-dozen
Arabian mares grazing in the park outside.
is one of them, with a pretty bay colt at
Sherifa
her heels,
while Hagar seems to enjoy galloping and jumping;
hurdles on Enoiish o-round. Mohammed's sura,
liajar, the stone
head from Palmyra, lies on a table
among whips and umbrellas, the nucleus of a collection
of antiques, and letters have arrived from
Aleppo announcing the great news of the day, the
alliance of Jedaan and Faris.
All is finished but the last few serious chapters,
with which Wilfrid proposes to end this book for
me.
In them the information we picked up during
our travels will be embodied, and, though he sa}'^
they will
probably be dull, I trust they may not be
Avithout practical value.