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This capability is not shared generally by the race, but by a breed belonging to the Hadendowa Arabs, between the Red Sea and Taka. There is quite as great a variety in the breeds of camels as of horses. Those most esteemed in the Soudan are the Bishareen; they are not so large as others, but are exceedingly strong and enduring.
He dipped his nose in the camel-stew, for some one poked a head in at the door every sense in him was alert, every instinct alive. "To-night," said Mahommed Ibrahim, in the hoarse gutturals of the Bishareen, "it is ordered that Fielding Bey shall die and by my hand, mine own, by the mercy of God! And after Fielding Bey the clean-faced ape that cast the evil eye upon me yesterday, and bade me die.
How lovely she was, this young Bishâreen, who had looked on the yearly fall of the Nile but fifteen times lovely as the tall slender palm of the oasis, or the gold light on the river at sunset. Tall and straight, with the stately carriage and proud head of her race; smooth and supple, with every limb faultlessly moulded under the clear, lustrous skin. "Silka, Silka! I cannot marry the Sheik.
They are armed men upon camels, Ababdeh, Bishareen Bedouins, in short, such as are employed by the Government upon the frontier." "Be Jove, he may be right, Cochrane," said Belmont, looking inquiringly at the Colonel. "Why shouldn't it be as he says? why shouldn't these fellows be friendlies?"
He sent Ali Baba, me, and Mujrim, and mounted her on the Bishareen dromedary, that men might know she was one whom her lord delighted to honor. She tried to get a chance to whisper to him, but he was too alert and acted exactly as if he had known her all his life, needing no explanations or assurances.
He and his men sat their camels with a stately pride more than half due to the rifles and bandoliers that had been served out. That black-faced fellow on the little Bishareen did not trouble himself about position in the line as long as we wound through the city streets.
A Bishareen Arab wears his hair in hundreds of minute plaits which hang down to his shoulders, surmounted by a circular bushy topknot upon the crown, about the size of a large breakfast-cup, from the base of which the plaits descend.
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