half-fellah

Updated: July 31, 2026

At last we sank a pit some five feet deep in a re-entering angle of the northern or smaller branch; we lined it with stone down-stream, where the flow made the loose sand fall in, and we obtained an ample and excellent supply. Doubtless it was spoiled, as soon as our backs were turned, by the half-Fellah Jerafin-Huwaytat, to whom the place belongs.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2