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The soldier looks appealingly toward the moonshi bashi, who tells him to let me drink, and then orders him to smash the jar.
He has never heard the young boulouk bashi talk in this sentimental manner before, and it surprises him too, to see his countenance so changed so radiant, serene, and cloudless, the chaste, thoughtful brows so bright, the flash of his large brown eyes. "Mohammed, my young friend, what bliss has Fortune bestowed on you?
I want my Karwan Bashi," sobbed the Comfortable Camel broken-heartedly. "Well, don't drown me," begged the Cowardly Lion, moving out of the way of the camel's tears. "Say, what's that draft?" What indeed?
The discharged twelve-pounder whistled about their heads and then fell far away in the midst of a bivouac where a number of worthy Bosniaks were cooking their suppers, scattering the hot ashes into their eyes, ricochetting thence very prettily into the pavilion of the Bostanji Bashi, two of whose windows it knocked out, thence bounding three or four times into the air, terrifying several recumbent groups in its passage, and trundling rapidly away over some level ground, till at last it rolled into the booth of a glass-maker, and there smashed to atoms an incalculable quantity of pottery.
The people had retired to rest, and the houses were dark. Suddenly a bright light illumined the surrounding darkness, and cries for help resounded through the air. The house that stood opposite Mohammed's is enveloped in flames, and its occupants rush out yelling and screaming for help. The old woman and the boy ran over the way and knocked at the window-shutters of the young boulouk bashi.
As they had arrived during the dry season, they were unable to commence their journey, and some time was spent in visiting different parts of the coast. Their intention was to proceed to Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, which was then supposed to be the southern end of the great central lake. They engaged as their kafila bashi, or head of their caravan, a well-disposed man, Sheikh Said.
I am no Ilekim Bashi; but I have an ointment that heals all bruises and sores in an incredibly short space of time." Me gave a most unsatisfactory account of his return to Turkey in Europe; first to Bosnia, or Herzegovina, where he was, or pretended to be, physician to Husreff Mehmed Pasha, and then to Seraievo.
Two days before the arrival of the army in Sennaar, as I was riding near the Topgi Bashi, who was in front of the army with the artillery, I saw a great number of armed men approaching, mounted on horses and dromedaries. I saw these personages when they arrived.
"What is your name, bim bashi? Where do you come from?" asks Cousrouf, after along pause. The bim bashi advances a step, and, looking steadily in the viceroy's countenance, bows profoundly. "My name is Mohammed Ali, and I come from Cavalla." "Cavalla!" repeats Cousrouf, with a start. Now he remembers that he has sometimes seen these eyes before him in sleepless nights.
I now calculated that five months had elapsed, and that it was the depth of winter, therefore I had no chance of being released until the ensuing spring. "Allah Wakbar, God is every where!" interrupted the pacha. "But I wish to know, Huckaback, how you were so exactly aware of the time which had passed away." "Min Bashi, and head of thousands!" replied Huckaback, "I will explain to your highness.
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