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Updated: May 18, 2025
Ibrahim was twenty, but he was completely a boy, despite his great height and his tried capacities as a dragoman. Everything in him suggested rather the boy than the young man.
"The Temple Area, which probably covers the place where was once the Court of the Temple," explained the dragoman, as we halted within the grounds, "is thirty-five acres in extent, about one thousand feet wide by two thousand feet in length, and is surrounded by high walls. It is revered by the Moslems as one of their most holy places.
"How far, Hassan?" "Two streets. Soon." The dragoman turned a corner, led them straight ahead for a few hundred steps, then turned a second corner. He pointed. Diagonally across the alley was a large store with display windows. A sign over the door carried the name ALI MOUSTAFA surrounded by Arabic script. "We'll get rid of the cat, then do some shopping," Rick said.
" mademoiselle became enthusiastic again, and, almost before they knew it, her sister and brother-in-law were committed to a desert expedition, were fitted out with a dragoman, tents, mules the whole show, in fact and one blazing hot day found themselves out in that sunshine you know it with Biskra a green shadow on that sea, the mountains behind the sulphur springs turning from bronze to black-brown in the distance, and the table flatness of the desert stretching ahead of them to the limits of the world and the judgment day."
Why did you put me on such a bad donkey as this?" and she turned to Abdallah, the dragoman. "Him berry good donkey, my lady; berry good, best of all. Call him Jack in Cairo. Him go to Pyramid and back, and mind noting." "What does he say, Miss Dawkins?" "He says that that donkey is one called Jack. If so I've had him myself many times, and Jack is a very good donkey."
Sometimes we see them stranded on a hidden sandbank with the crew making frantic efforts to get them off again. We see the reaches lying ahead glittering like jewels in the sun, and then we land and ride a short way to a temple, under the care of the dragoman of the boat.
Behind me, through the columns, peeped some houses of the village: the white home of Ibrahim Ayyad, the perfect dragoman, grandson of Mustapha Aga, who entertained me years ago, and whose house stood actually within the precincts of the temple; houses of other fortunate dwellers in Luxor whose names I do not know.
Through my dragoman as interpreter I spoke a little while on the theme of the evening, which meant much to me there where the migration of Moses was in a measure felt by the early inhabitants. They listened attentively, and when I had finished they told my guide to say to "hawadje" that they wanted him to stay and make his home with them.
"Is thy uncle dirt to be thus disregarded? Ask his pardon, O my dear!" Abdullah the dragoman laughed at that, and suggested they had best be moving, for the night was near. A trace of grievance lingered in his voice and manner, for he loved ceremonies, and had looked forward to a formal presentation of his nephew to the English nobleman. "Come, tell the story of thy day!" he too insisted.
As they journeyed Tahar, their dragoman he had applied for the post, and got it by the desire of mademoiselle, who admired his lithe bearing and gorgeous aplomb Tahar suddenly pulled up his mule, pointed with his brown hand to the horizon, and said in French: "'There is mirage! Look! There is the mirage of the great desert!
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