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Updated: June 15, 2025
Golah had the discretion to yield to a destiny that could not be averted the misfortune of being made a prisoner and plundered at the same time. Calmly saying, "It is the will of God," he sat down, and invited his captors to a conference on the terms of capitulation.
He has a spirit that will not submit to slavery, and we have not." "That be truth," remarked the Krooman; "Golah nebbar be slave." Colin was right. By accepting food and drink from his captors, the black sheik might have satisfied the demands of mere animal nature, but only at the sacrifice of all that was noble in his nature.
She had believed him doomed to a life of slavery, if not to death; and this belief had influenced her in her late actions. A goat's-skin of water, some barley meal, for making sangleh, and a few other necessary articles, were placed on a camel, which was delivered over to Golah.
Neither do we claim that the power of his intellect, if put forth in a storm of eloquence, could move the masses of his fellow-creatures, as a hurricane stirs up the waters of the sea; yet, for all this, Golah had a great intellect. He was born to rule; and not a particle of all the propensities and sentiments constituting his mind was ever intended to yield to the will of another.
Then waiting till the shades of night had descended over the desert, and the strangers were beyond the reach of vision, Golah gave orders to resume the march once more in a south-easterly direction, which would carry them away from the sea-coast, and, as the white slaves believed, from all chances of their ever recovering their freedom.
Sailor Bill and Colin were next treated in a similar fashion, both being fast bound like their companions. "What does the ould divil mane?" asked Bill, when Golah was tying his hands together. "Will he murder us all?" "No," answered the Krooman. "He no kill but one of your party." His eyes turned upon Colin as he spoke. "Colin! Colin!" exclaimed Harry; "see what you have done by opposing our plan!
He gratified our adventurers by telling them that they were in no danger of having to endure a prolonged period of captivity, as they would soon be sold into liberty, instead of slavery. Golah could not afford to keep slaves; and was only a kidnapper and dealer in the article. He would sell them to the highest bidder, and that would be some English consul on the coast.
The mother of the child, apparently attentive to the welfare of her firstborn, checked the progress of her maherry, and rode back to him. After the camels had been unloaded, and the tents pitched, Golah superintended the serving out of their suppers, which consisted only of sangleh.
Golah then proceeded to serve out some cheni to every individual on the ground, but none was given to the woman who had aroused his anger, nor to Colin. In the sheik's opinion, to have offered them food would have been an act as foolish as to have poured it upon the sands. Food was intended to sustain life, and it was not designed by him that they should live much longer.
Golah, after examining his human property, and evidently satisfied with the condition of all, retired to his tent; from which soon after issued sounds that resembled a distant thunder-storm. The black sheik was snoring. The two young men, his son and brother-in-law relieved each other during the night in keeping watch over the slaves. Their vigil was altogether unnecessary.
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