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The lad, however, watched for an opportunity when I was alone, and warned me not to trust the black, "He hates you and your friends, and has resolved on your destruction," he whispered to me. "I overheard him, when he did not know I was near, speaking to Abdalah, and it is clear that his intention is to betray you.
"Lor', Tom," said Larrikins to me, expressing the current feeling of all on board the Mermaid, "I'd die happy, s'help me, if I could only pot that there bloomin' Arab thief Abdalah, him we see'd shoot poor little Dabby.
"You might take it into your heads to try and gallop off; and though you would not escape, it would give us the trouble of going after you." As we rode along that day, I found that we were once more verging towards the sea-shore. While we were moving onwards, Abdalah came up with my spy-glass hung over his shoulder, and said that he wished me to show him its use.
From being able to talk to the people, Halliday and I had much softened their feelings towards us; and I determined to try what I could do to win the regard of the sheikh. He had a brother, Abdalah by name, a fine-looking young man, who thought a good deal of himself. Making him a profound salaam as he was passing one day, I said: "May your shadow never be less.
After burying the dead with all the honours of war, the corpse of the Arab chief I had killed with Captain Sackville's sword being identified formally as that of the notorious Abdalah, as I had thought, our columns returned to the coast in triumph with the proud consciousness of having cleared the country of all the invading Somalis.
"Bismillah! is what you speak the truth?" exclaimed Abdalah. "Your servant would not condescend to speak a lie. Among our people it is looked upon as a disgraceful act," I answered.
`Old Hankey Pankey' got us all ashore the same afternoon the admiral's orders came; and, early the next morning, nearly four hundred strong now, just double our former strength, we marched off up country towards the scene of our defeat at the hands of the Somali chieftain Abdalah, on the occasion of our previous trip inland.
Instead of letting Abdalah see it, I turned the glass towards some distant camels, which appeared mere specks rising out of the sandy desert. Abdalah's astonishment on seeing them, as it were, on a sudden brought within reach, was much greater than mine had been on catching sight of the tent.
"Though we may be wide apart, our hearts may be joined; and we may meet above, in that happy land to which all Christians are bound." I had no longer a shade of doubt as to Selim proving faithful. Next morning Selim and I, according to the sheikh's directions, waited outside the camp, when he, his brother Abdalah, and two other chiefs appeared, conducting a couple of camels.
"We escaped in one of the boats, and after enduring many hardships were thrown on this inhospitable shore, several of our people being drowned at the same time." I told the sheikh of the sufferings they had endured, hoping to excite his compassion; but he seemed unmoved thereat, though he allowed Abdalah to show us a spot where, by digging, we could obtain some fresh water.
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