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Arrived at the gate of the town, they accosted the warder, sent their salaams to the Amir, and requested the honour of audience. At Harar. They were conducted to the palace, a long, single-storied, windowless barn of rough stone and reddish clay. Says Burton: "I walked into a vast hall between two long rows of Galla spearmen, between whose lines I had to pass.
Azim had already sent two disciples to summon the Turk to the presence of the Grand Marabout, and in due time he appeared a rough, heavy, truculent fellow enough, but making awkward salaams as one in great awe of the presence in which he stood unwilling awe perhaps full of superstitious fear tempered by pride for the haughty Turks revolted against homage to one of the subject race of Moors.
In due course the chief and his retinue arrived, and were met with great politeness and many salaams by Shah Sowar; but that worthy managed to whisper in the chief's ear the sad intelligence that this was one of his master's bad days, and that the Evil Spirit was upon him. "Nevertheless be pleased to enter," he added aloud; "His Highness will be glad to see you."
I am making some treaties, and have given my prisoner who also sends his salaams local rank of Khan Bahadur. "'A. L. Cockran. "Well, that was all," said Dick Four, when the roaring, the shouting, the laughter, and, I think, the tears, had subsided. "I chaperoned the gang across the border as quick as I could.
If the lady is not receiving, he brings out a wooden box with the inscription "Mrs. What's-her-name Not at home," you drop in your cards, and drive on to the next. If the box is not out, then the durwan, taking the cards, goes in to ask if his mistress is receiving, and comes back with her salaams, and that means that one has to go in for a few minutes, but it doesn't often happen.
She was in a blue dress, and she lifted the veil of her bonnet and said 'Ram Dass, give my salaams to the Sahib, and tell him that I shall meet him next month at Nuddea. Then I ran away, because I was afraid." What Dumoise said or did I do not know.
The respectful salaams, as we caught the eye of one native after another, their deferential, not to say obsequious, attitude as we passed all this tells its story. That "all men are born free and equal" will not enter the Hindoo mind for centuries not till England has brought it up to the standard of self-government, which it is gradually doing, however, by its schools and colleges.
The profound salaams and good taste of these eminently respectable personages are not to be resisted, and after satisfying them, the khan promises to provide me with supper, which at a later hour turns up in the form of the inevitable dish of pillau. Two miles on the road next morning and it begins raining; at five miles it develops into a regular downpour, that speedily wets me through.
If the Pindari horde had left the territory of Sindhia and crossed the border into Saugor they were closer to the British. Barlow patted the girl's hand, saying, "My salaams to you, little girl." He felt her slim cool fingers press his hand, but he shrank from the claiming touch, muttering, "The damned barrier!"
They were nearly all marked "P.D.", and I hope it may be given to me to look as cheerful when my turn comes to be Permanently Disabled. It was worth a week's pay to see the grins on their brown puckered faces and hear their husky contented salaams as they were lifted from the train.
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