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Updated: May 4, 2025
Another Israelite made us suits of rough brown jellab material, for the sum of £1 each stuff which wore for ever. The mountains on the opposite side of the river were our El Dorado, but the river would not go down in January and allow of our fording it; rain followed rain, and it was higher than ever.
"For the love of God; for the love of God," he rolled out incessantly in Arabic, ending in a throaty gobble like a turkey; and the country people threw him, as they passed, of their bundles here an orange, there a lump of charcoal whatever it might be it was crammed into the hood of the jellab; and the sing-song and the gobble began again.
Then he thought of his Moorish jellab, and looked at himself, and saw that he was returning home like a beggar; and he remembered with what splendour he had started out. Should he wait for the darkness, and creep into his house under the cover of it? If the thought had occurred an hour before he must have scouted it.
She called through the keyhole, "Anna. We walked into a three-cornered, tiled patio: the lady of the house came to meet us in a pink jellab, shook Miss Banks's hand and kissed her own, shook mine and again carried hers to her lips; then led us into a room opening on to the courtyard, with divans, in white, all round upon the tiled floor next the wall.
From the roofs of the houses a vast human ant-hill could be seen swarming across the plain in the distance. Then came some rapid transformations of the scene below. First the streets were deserted by every decent blue jellab and clean white turban within range of sight.
He bought a new jellab for wearing on visits to the sok; and after it had been proudly shown us, it was found, neatly folded up, placed on a hat-box in our bedroom. When we asked why it was there, he was taken aback. "Mightn't he keep it there? It was new: it was very clean." One evening, when he came in to settle accounts, he said that he wished to write a letter.
One bow-legged rascal in a ragged jellab went about constantly with a little loaf of bread, crying, "An ounce of butter for God's sake!" and when some one gave him the alms he asked he stuck the white sprawling mess on the top of the loaf and changed his cry to "An ounce of cheese for God's sake!"
He dared not risk it. So he sat on the bed in silence, hardly moving, scarcely breathing a dust-laden man in a ragged jellab, holding Naomi in his arms. It was still the month of Ramadhan, and the sun was but three hours set. In the fondak called El Oosaa, a group of the town Moors, who had fasted through the day, were feasting and carousing.
The black woman Habeebah opened it cautiously, and, seeing his jellab, she clashed it back in his face. "Habeebah!" he cried, and he knocked once more. Then Ali came to the door. "What Moorish man are you?" cried Ali, pushing him back as he pressed forward. "Ali! Hush! It is I Israel." Then Ali knew him and cried, "God save us! What has happened?" "What has happened here?" said Israel.
The initial "voluntary" by the "orchestra" has ended; every eye is directed towards the central figure, this time arrayed in ample turban, white jelláb and yellow slippers, with a face betokening a lucrative profession. After a moment's silence he commences the history of The others were terrified, and a general assembly was convoked to see what was to be done.
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