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

4 Bedouin Tribes of tJic Euphrates, [cir. xvr.
future plans that gave us anxiety, for it was easy to
see that Ave should find no help from the Serai in
what we were now bent on, a visit to the Anazeh.
We resolved simply to say notliing at all about
them.
Of Mr. S. the Pasha knew nothing, except that
he had heard of him as being at Aleppo a month
before, and expressed great surprise at our expecting
to find him again at Deyr. Kadderly Pasha, the
new Valy, would however arrive in a few hours,
and we should get the latest news. His own son
Zaklvi Bey, was travelling with the Valy, and he
was a friend of Mr. S.'s. So we were fain to be
content with the hope that
perhaps the consul also
would be of the party, as, in a few lines that
had been waiting some time for us at Deyr from
him, he had spoken of his journey as a settled plan.
But why had he failed us ? This we could not
understand.
The next day Huseyn was busy with the Valy,
and left us pretty much to ourselves ; and, when we
met again, there certainly was a (j&ae in his mjinner.
Considering the circumstances of the case, the unfortunate
issue of the war with Eussia, the denuded
state of the garrisons on the Turkish frontier, and
the intrigues and disputes which were agitating the
desert round him, I think it is not surprising that
our persistence in visiting the Bedouin tribes, in
spite of all warnings and all hindrances, should
have aroused suspicions of us in Huseyn's official