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Updated: May 26, 2025
This stone had reappeared in large quantities, the moment we crossed the divide; the pale grey of the Jebel Ziglab and its neighbours was evidently owing to its presence; and from this point it will be found extending southwards and seawards as far as El-Hejaz. He brought with him a hard white stone much resembling trachyte, and fragments of fine green jasper.
The Sheik's steed was of the most precious strain of El-Hejaz; and sitting high in the saddle, a turban of many folds on his head, a striped robe drawn close to the waist, his face thin, coffee-colored, hawk-nosed, and lightning-eyed, he looked a king of the desert. Galloping down on the Christian, he twirled the formidable lance dextrously, until it seemed not more than a stalk of dried papyrus.
We have now left the region explored by Europeans; and our line to the south and the south-east will lie over ground wholly new. In front of us the land is no longer Arz Madyan: we are entering South Midian, which will extend to El-Hejaz. As the march might last longer than had been expected, I ordered fresh supplies from El-Muwaylah to meet us in the interior via Ziba.
"My Lord, he might have been bred under my own tent." The Sultan's countenance changed. "Was there not more of his message?" He was thinking of the Princess Irene. "Yes, my Lord." "Repeat it." "He will fight me again to-day or to-morrow, as my Lord may appoint and I want my horse. Without him, El-Hejaz will be a widow." A red spot appeared on Mahommed's forehead. "Begone!" he cried angrily.
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