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

cii. XIX.] A Real Ghazii. 73
Anazeh tents to-morrow. We have come about
thirty miles.
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April 4.—Jazzer, for some reason unexplained?
altered his course this morning, and started off southeast
;
and, after passing the tell we had seen yesterday,
a line of low hills came in sight, or as they
turned out afterwards, of cliffs, the edge of an upper
table land. Towards this we advanced obliquely,
keeping a good look-out for tents, which we expected
to find in ever}^ hollow,— for a party of Sleb were
known to be in the neighbourhood. About nine
o'clock Wilfrid thought he saw two
men, peeping
over a bit of broken ground about a mile off to our
right, and galloped up to them for news, leaving
me with Mr. S., who made me anxious by saying
that it was very imprudent to ride up in this way
to unknown people by oneself, but by this time
AYilfrid was far away and unconscious of criticism.
Besides, I knew he was well armed and mounted,
and would run no unnecessary risk. Mohammed
too had started off to support him as soon as he
saw what was going on.
As it turned out, it was very lucky AVilfrid went
to them, for in about half-an-hour he returned at
full speed to tell us we were going the wrong
way, that the Anazeh had moved away from the