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Updated: May 6, 2025
Women vary in value from 100 to 400 Ashrafis, boys from 9 to 150: the worst are kept for domestic purposes, the best are driven and exported by the Western Arabs or by the subjects of H. H. the Imam of Muscat, in exchange for rice and dates.
This prosaic fact was converted by the adherents of the House of Mohammed into the romance, that the last imam of a line of seven according to some, and twelve according to others, had disappeared in a mysterious way, to return at the end of days as Mahdi, the Guided One, who should restore the political order which had been disturbed ever since Mohammed's death.
It is needless to say we did not consent, as it would have been 'Good-bye Talib and money! Imam Sharif and Saleh again perjured themselves in our behalf to such an extent that my husband and I could hardly sit by, but we must speak the language of the country, I suppose. From Dizba we passed over very high ground, 4,300 feet, with a cold refreshing wind from the sea.
But it profited the Bĕndăhâra nothing, for Imâm Bakar, the oldest of the three, set an example of loyalty which his two companions, Imâm Prang Sâmah and Khatib Bûjang, followed resolutely. Imâm Bakar himself acted from principle.
But having in the space of a year exhausted his stock of stories, the imam, who is blessed with an excellent memory, discovering that he was telling the same stories over again, shut him up in a tower constructed of vermilion stone quarried on the upper waters of the great river Euphrates.
"These I added for the sake of honour when I came to England," said Imam Din Adam smiled the ghost of a little smile that I began to remember, and we put him on the big couch for refreshments. Stalky asked him how much leave he had, and he said "Six months." "But he'll take another six on medical certificate," said Agnes anxiously. Adam knit his brows. "You don't want to eh? I know.
We said they might, but Talib told us that if we did not pay they would give the Hamoumi their money and all go back themselves. We then summoned Imam Sharif and had another council of three. The servants, meanwhile, used often to be leaning in at the tent door, scanning our faces and begging us to do anything the Jabberi wanted, and moaning that we should never see the ocean any more.
'Nevertheless I cannot go, said Imâm Prang, 'for my mother is sick, and I must return to tend her. Then the Sultân stood upon his feet and stamped. 'What manner of a warrior is this? he asked, pointing at Tŭngku Pănglîma. 'He is a warrior made out of offal!
When he came, Er Reshid said to the Imam, 'I authorize thee to marry her to him. So the Imam proposed the marriage to the slave, who accepted it, and performed the due ceremony; after which he said to the slave, 'Divorce her, and thou shalt have a hundred diners. But he refused to do this and the Imam went on to increase his offer, till he bid him a thousand diners.
"When the Government pay is not sufficient, and low-caste men are promoted, what can an honest man do?" he replied, in the very touch and accent of Imam Din, and Strickland's eyebrows went up. "You talk too much to the police, my son," he said. "Always, about everything," said Adam, promptly. "They say that when I am an officer I shall know as much as my father." "God forbid, little one!"
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