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

6 Bedouin Tribes of the EiipJirates. [en. xa-i.
politics of Europe and the Empire. His history, I
believe, is this. As a young man he was taken up
by Vefyk EfFendi, who with Midliat Pasha was
anxious to form a school of politicians in Turkey
with modern views and modern principles. These
loudly professed the doctrine, new to Ottoman ears,
that honesty was the best policy, and carried
out, I
believe, their principle fairly. Unfoi^tunately the
band of followers was never numerous,, and Kadderly
seems to have been the only one who distinguished
himself in the world. He had educated
himself when past twenty, and after
filling various
minor offices, had now been promoted by his first
patron to the rank of Valy.
Kadderly Pasha was straight from Stamboul,
having left the capital not three weeks before, and
had all the contempt, which a European, fresh from
witnessing the great events of history, (for he had
left the Russians at the gates of Constantinople),
could not help feeling for the petty politics of
Arabia. He did not, in ftict, so much as ask what
was going on among the Bedouins, but ignored the
whole matter, afiecting only an interest in the ruins
of El Haddr and the prospects of a Euphrates
valley railway. This European line of thought
suited us admirably ;
and we discoursed, as learnedly
as we could, on archaeology and civil engineering,
and a little
on the attempted improvements of his
former predecessor and patron Midliat at Bagdad.
On these the Valy spoke as sensibly as a first