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These stages are intended not for landing oh, no! but only for loading ships; stairs are wanting, and passengers must be carried ashore 'pick-a-back. The labourers are mainly, if not wholly, 'Golah' women of British Combo, whose mates live upon the proceeds of their labours. To-day being Sunday, the juvenile piscators of Bathurst muster strong upon the piers, and no policeman bids them move on.
"You are going now!" exclaimed Golah, nearly frantic with delight; "and we are not carrying you, are we? Neither are you riding? Bismillah! I am your master!" The torture of travelling in this manner was too great to be long endured; and Bill had to take to his feet and walk forward as before.
The caravan newly arrived consisted of eleven men, with eight camels and three Saaran horses. The men were all Arabs, none of them being slaves. They were well-armed, and carried no merchandise. They had lately come from the north-west, for what purpose Golah knew not, since the account the stranger sheik had given of himself was not satisfactory.
For nearly a week he had been travelling night and day, and the want of sleep and food could not have been much longer endured. At the command of the Arab chief, the slaves now buried the bodies of Golah and his son.
Golah has got a way of making a man travel, whether he be willing or not." All started forward from the place but the three white slaves and the two whom Golah intended to remain. "Cheer up, lad," said Bill to Colin; "we'll never go and leave you there." "Go on! go on!" exclaimed Colin. "You can do me no good, and will only injure yourselves."
Should he shout to his companions, and have them all act in concert, as they had already proposed? No. Such an act would most likely lead to two of them being shot, to the third having his brains knocked out with the butt-end of a musket; and to the fourth, himself, being strangled in the powerful grasp of Golah, if not beheaded with the scimitar in the hands of Fatima.
Golah was only armed with a scimitar; but it was a weapon that, in his hands, was sure to fall with deadly effect. It was a weapon of great size and weight, having been made expressly for himself; and with this upraised, he silently but swiftly glided after the unconscious Arab.
Shortly after noon, the woman was seen driving Colin up to the kafila, urging him forward with loud screams, and blows administered with the knotted end of the rope by which she guided her maherry. After a time, Golah, apparently annoyed by her shrill scolding voice, ordered her to desist, and permit the slave to continue his journey in peace.
The plan she devised was to compel someone of the slaves to carry her eldest child, a boy about four years of age. Colin was the victim selected for this duty. All the attempts made by the young Scotchman to avoid the responsibilities thus imposed upon him, proved vain. The woman was resolute, and Colin had to yield; although he resisted until she threatened to call Golah to her assistance.
The small supply of food possessed by the travellers would not admit of their making any delay at this watering-place; and the next morning the journey was resumed. The Arabs appeared to bear no animosity towards the young man who had assisted Golah in killing their companions; and now that the black sheik was dead, they had no fear that the former would try to escape.
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