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'Up, Daoud Khan' he cried to me 'we go a-hunting' and I sprang to the rear saddle even as the camel rose. 'Lead on, Moussa Isa, and track as thou hast never tracked before, if thou wouldst live, said he to the Somali, a noted paggi, even among the Baluch and Sindhi paggis of the police at Peshawar and Kot Ghazi.
"Lord of the palace of life," he said, addressing the physician, "thou, before whom the angel Azrael spreadeth his wings for flight thou, wiser than Solimaun Ben Daoud, upon whose signet was inscribed the REAL NAME which controls the spirits of the elements forbid it, Heaven, that while thou travellest upon the track of benevolence, bearing healing and hope wherever thou comest, thine own course should be saddened for lack of the tale and of the song.
I asked, for the Subedar-Major's rapid utterance of the name conveyed nothing of familiar English or Scottish names to my mind. "Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan," replied Mir Daoud Khan; "that was her father's name, Sahib." "Say it again, slowly." "Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan." "I have it! Yes, but what? John Robin Ross-Ellison? Good God! But I knew a John Robin Ross-Ellison when I was a Captain.
Cavagnari had full powers to represent his Government in the pending negotiations, as to the terms of which he had received from the Viceroy detailed instructions. The Ameer and his General-in-Chief, Daoud Shah, came to the conference attired in Russian uniforms.
"And had the hand of your brother anything to do with the little drops of water that made Ibrahim the Weeper so blind?" I asked. "Something, Sahib," replied Mir Daoud Khan with a laugh, "but the hand of Allah had more than that of my brother. It is a strange story.
None of them were allowed to stir without a man with a halbert, and they had the greatest difficulty in entrusting a third letter to the Moor in command of the party. Indeed, it was only managed by Estelle's coaxing of the little Abou Daoud, who was growing devoted to her, and would do anything for the reward of hearing her sing life Malbrook s'en va-t'-n guerre.
"I shall have to insist upon the coffee; and I advise the wafers," said Mr. Jelnik, pleasantly. So I drank the coffee, nibbled the wafers, and felt better. The copper-colored man, standing still as a statue, waited until I had finished, took the cup, bowed, and disappeared. He was a stately impressive person, rather like a shah in disguise. Mr. Jelnik addressed him as "Daoud." I had risen.
'I do, said I, 'and I never saw a finer brilliant than your own, one excepted; it belonged to an acquaintance of mine, a Tartar Khan. He did not bear it on his finger, however; it stood in the frontlet of his horse, where it shone like a star. He called it Daoud Scharr, which, being interpreted, meaneth light of war. 'Vaya! said the archbishop, 'how very extraordinary!
I could not imagine the reason for such a curious present, nor did Miss Morgan's letter greatly enlighten me. It was as follows: "Dear Sir, "I am sending you a little cat which Dr. Daoud brought back from Egypt, and of which I am very fond.
Their chief Astronomer, Muley Hamet Ben Daoud, when I was there, who superintended and regulated the Hours of Prayer by the Moon and Stars, had not the skill to make a Sundial; and in Navigation they cannot get beyond Pricking of a Chart, and distinguishing the Eight principal Points of the Compass.
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