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It was the first time he had heard an Arab pronounce this word, so characteristically African; and he asked him to say it again for the pleasure of hearing it, liking the way the Saharian spoke it, with an accent at once tender and proud, that of a native speaking of his country to one who has never seen it. "How far away is ?" Owen tried to imitate the guttural. "Fifteen days' journey."
"Saharians from the desert, the true bedouin." "The bedouin but not the true Saharian," his dragoman informed him. And Owen retreated into his tent, thinking of the hawks which the Arabs carried on their wrists, and how hawking had been declining in Europe since the sixteenth century. But it still flourished in Africa, where to-day is the same as yesterday.
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