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"Taste it then," replied the aga, "and then taste the first which you recommended to me." My master did so, and was evidently astonished. "It certainly has more body," replied he; "yet how that can be, I know not. Taste it, Charis." I held the glass to my lips, but nothing could induce me to taste the contents.
The great low cavern, without the support of the myriad walls, would probably collapse trapping the invading Quabos and leaving the rest without a home once more. But Aga answered this before I could voice it. The Quabos had foreseen that point. They were tunneling slowly but surely toward the city from a point about half a mile from the diving chamber.
Here a Turkish soldier, complimented with the title of Aga, was stationed under a tent, to forward the provisions coming from the lower station to Tayf. I observed with some astonishment, that not a single pleasure-house was built on this high platform.
"Bacri," he said, sitting down, while the master of the house stood respectfully before him, "thou knowest the object of my visit eh? Come, it is not the first time thou hast had to do with such as I. The plot thickens, Bacri, and thou must play thy part, willing or not willing. Say, how much is it to be?" "How much do you demand?" asked the Jew. The Aga rose and whispered in his ear.
"What is it?" asked the king, in a low voice, of Baron von Rexin, who stood near the divan. "Sire, it is mare's milk!" whispered Rexin. The king shuddered, and almost overturned the contents of the dish which he had just received from the hands of Mustapha Aga; but quickly overcoming this feeling, he raised the bowl smilingly to his mouth.
Having landed all my stores, and housed my corn in some granaries belonging to Koorshid Aga, I took a receipt from him for the quantity, and gave him an order to deliver one-half from my depot to Speke and Grant, should they arrive at Gondokoro during my absence in the interior.
"There is one other way," began Aga, "but that lies through the forest." "We will take it rather than risk navigation in such a torrent as you describe," decided Billy after the remark of Aga had been translated to him. But before the two savages could say more there came a distant booming borne down the rocky tube of the corridor. It was the far-off confused sound of excited voices.
Then turning once more to Mustapha Aga, he dismissed him for the day, and gave him permission to occupy the magnificent tent which had been presented to him by the Khan, during the remainder of his visit.
At about four hours after the noon of the 8th, we quitted the banks of the Nile, and turned into the desert, carrying as much water as we well could, myself taking four water-skins for myself, Khalil Aga, and a black slave of mine.
"The lady Perizadeh, being the daughter of so influential a man as Mazoudi Khan, it was arranged that Mirza Aga, who was her inferior in rank, should advance two-thirds of the distance that had to be traversed. "It thus happened that when the two cavalcades encountered each other, and the bridegroom, according to custom, threw the orange and rode off, he had some considerable distance to ride.
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