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Updated: June 27, 2025
After the space of two years, a kafila of merchants arrived at the port from the country of Zerbad, and they were all bound for Persia; they wished to return to their own country by sea. It was the rule at that port, that whenever a karavan arrived there, the chiefs of the karavan used to present to me as a nazar some rare presents and curiosities of different countries.
The Krooman said that she had called the lad a lazy pig, a Christian dog, and an unbelieving fool, and that she threatened to kill him unless he kept up with the kafila. On the third day of their journeying, it chanced not to be quite so hot as on the one preceding it; and consequently the sufferings of the slaves, especially from thirst, were somewhat less severe.
Assuredly, looking at the dozen or more dead bodies stretched in a row at his feet, Royson deemed mankind as unchangeable as the desert. At two o'clock, when the stars and a new moon were dimly lighting the circle of hills, an Arab vedette reported the approach of a large kafila from the west.
Quassia-chips were given to each to steep in water, but carefully tied up in different coloured cotton bags. Our way was very uninteresting, due south to the sea at Rizat. My husband's camel required repacking, and he and Hassan managed to lose sight of the rest of the kafila. Imam Sharif and I went on without perceiving that the rest had stopped. We had to wait an hour to be found.
On leaving Tingazeer they had the blessing of a rainy day, for such it was to all, but particularly to the poor negroes who accompanied the kafila; although Boo Khaloom always gave something to drink from his skins once a day, an unusual kindness; yet, marching as they were for twelve and fourteen hours, a single draught was scarcely sufficient to satisfy nature.
Equipage for crossing the Desert Donkey-chairs Sense of calmness and tranquillity on entering the Desert Nothing dismal in its aspect The Travellers' Bungalow Inconvenient construction of these buildings Kafila of the Governor of Jiddah and his Lady Their Equipage Bedouins Impositions practised on Travellers Desert Travelling not disagreeable Report of the sailing of the Steamer Frequency of false reports Ease with which an infant of the party bore the journey A wheeled carriage crossing the Desert Parties of Passengers from Suez encountered One of Mr.
I had to rush down when I saw our kafila coming and mount, to keep in front. If I got behind, the camels were so terrified that they danced about and shed their loads, and I was cursed and sworn at by their drivers. We had to wait for the moon, to find our baggage and get out the lantern.
I could not endure to mar the prospect by looking at it through a veil, and found my parasol quite sufficient protection against the rays of the sun. The kafila, which we had passed the preceding evening, overtook us soon after we started.
The burking of his cablegrams, made known by the Baron, was the last straw in an aggravated load. The yacht was going to Aden to enable him to lodge a complaint with the proper authorities, but she would leave almost at once for French Somaliland, where a kafila would be collected and a dash made across the Italian frontier.
The Siyum are the rites performed for the dead on the third day after demise; it is called the tija in Hinduwi. Alluding to God. The Muhammadan sabbath is Friday. A kafila means a company of merchants who assemble and travel together for mutual protection. It is synonymous with caravan.
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