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The best cure for any wound thus attacked, and swarming with live maggots, is a teaspoonful of calomel applied and rubbed into the deep sore. I have seen the Arabs in the Soudan adopt a most torturing remedy when a camel has suffered from a fly-blown sore back.
Questions and Answers Sorrowful Cases Testimonies from those who have visited Canada Stewardship. The fallowing plain answers to practical questions, are written by those well acquainted with the work: I. "Are these children really street Arabs? If not, where do you find so many?"
"Perfectly right," she answered with a careful seriousness. "I am proud of you both." "And Monsieur?" asked Ali, speaking in his turn. Androvsky withdrew his eyes from the city, which was now near at hand. "Splendid!" he said, but as if attending to the Arabs with difficulty. "You are splendid."
He is the "Q" who rescued the princess from the Arabs, and performed many a feat which lives in her glowing pages. He persists in saying that he never rescued Madame la Princesse from any Arabs at all, except from one beggar who was bawling out for bucksheesh, and whom Kew drove away with a stick.
His first enquiry was whether any boats were going down the river. He learned that several native craft were leaving, and at once engaged a passage in one of them to Hebbeh. He had no difficulty, whatever, in engaging four sturdy Arabs from among those who were listlessly hanging round the little station.
'No doubt you are referring to that theft in the hotel, of which you thought so little at the time that you would take no action. That was the doing of a Greek, as was established. Say, can you of your own experience of children of the Arabs say that one of us has ever robbed you of a small para, or wronged you seriously? 'I cannot, was my answer, after brief reflection.
There will be found in this work many carefully-prepared illustrations of the cushioned seats, the projecting balconies of the lattice work already alluded to, of octagonal inlaid tables, and such other articles of furniture as were used by the Arabs. The South Kensington Handbook, "Persian Art," by Major-General Murdoch Smith, R.E., is also a very handy and useful work in a small compass.
Gagliuffi related a characteristic anecdote of the ignorance prevailing amongst the Arabs as gross as that of Negroes. G. visited that place. The Bashaw was buying something of an Arab, and gave him but a third of its real value. Mr. G. took upon himself to say, "Why do you injure this poor man by giving him but a third of the value of his goods?"
"I don't know, but I hear something. It travels to us from the minarets." They both leaned forward on their horses' necks, holding each other's hand. "I feel the tumult of men," Androvsky said presently. "And I. But it seems as if no men could have elected to build a city here." "Here in the 'Belly of the desert," he said, quoting the Arabs' name for Amara.
The sheik laid down the law with great force, "that a woman was of no use when she ceased to be young, unless she was a good strong person who could grind corn, and carry water from the river;" in this assertion he was seconded, and supported unanimously by the crowd of Arabs present.
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