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

cii. XIX.] Domestic Intyigiics. 69
with his tears. The tents have been pitched in a.
wady below the viUage, and we have spent a delightful
day showing to understanding eyes our
property in
camels, asses, and camp furniture, and
feasting our eyes on the two lovely mares which
are now to relieve the hard-worked Hao-ar and o
Tamarisk. A new donkey has been bought for
Mr. S. for five pounds, and the zaptiehs have
been dismissed. Mohammed has brousjlit a lono;-
legged Anazeh with him who turned up this
morning at Tudmur, and who is to take us to
Jedaan to-morrow. Fortunately Arak is not much
out of our road to him. The man, whose name is
Jazzer, is as black as a negro, but his features are
purely Semitic, and according to Mohammed his
colour is only due to the sun ; as to blood he is
"asil." Ghanim has been delighting us all with
his music, but he and an Armenian Mr. S. has
brought with him, have been fighting already over
the new mares. Each of course wants to have the
custody of them. There are three Christians now
in our camp, for the Consul, besides the Armenian
groom Simon, has brought a Christian servant with
him, and these Avith Hanna have laid their heads
together, as people of the same race or religion always
do in the East when they find themselves in a
majority, to bully Ghanim, They came this evening
with a tale against Ghanim of tobacco stolen by
him out of Wilfrid's bag, but we have taken his
part, and reminded them that he is not our servant,