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Updated: May 13, 2025
At length Beirouc told one of his attendants to conduct the three prisoners to their habitation. The whole town was composed of houses built with sun-dried bricks of a yellowish tint. They were conducted into a square, out of which opened several chambers, or houses with small doors; one of these they were told to enter.
"Beirouc say he no sell me, and that I stay here." "Tell him that we cannot do without you," said Stephen. "Me tell Ibraim; that more use," said Jumbo. Jumbo was evidently looked upon as a very clever fellow by the Arabs, and he so managed the matter that Ibraim purchased him as well as the two young Englishmen, and they immediately set forward on their journey northward.
At length one day a new character, who accompanied Beirouc, made his appearance; he was a tall, fine-looking man, with a white beard, and handsome though somewhat stern countenance.
He told them that the next day they would arrive at his town, where they were to spend some time. This was agreeable news, as they hoped to obtain some means of communicating with the coast. Towards evening Beirouc pointed out to them his habitation.
Though the chief hitherto treated them with more humanity, still, as might have been expected, they felt that they were slaves, and they asked Jumbo to make inquiries. "Yes, we all slavee," he said. "Beirouc, he make us work; he sell us." Jumbo brought them further intelligence that they were not to remain at their present station long.
"Who is this robber chief; have you been able to learn anything about him?" asked Roger. "He called Sheik Beirouc, great man in his own country; me fear he make us all slavee," answered Jumbo. "Tell him that we would pay him well if he will liberate us and send us back to England," said Stephen. "He no trust us till he see de money in his hand," answered Jumbo, "and dat de difficulty."
But Beirouc well knew that they would have been unable to find their way, and that they would either have been starved, or made prisoners by the inhabitants, or killed by wild beasts, and he told Jumbo to give them a hint that such would be their fate should they attempt it. They had therefore to submit as best they could to the indignities offered them.
About an hour after noon they arrived at a well, surrounded by a vast number of animals, camels, horses, mules, donkeys, goats; and so completely blocked up was the approach that it was with the greatest difficulty that they reached the water to satisfy their burning thirst. In the evening they reached some tents belonging to Beirouc, where they passed the night.
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