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Updated: May 31, 2025
Such in truth was he one of the two sheiks the old Arab to whom the straying camel belonged; and who was now mounted on his own maherry. His presence on the strand at this, to our adventurers, most inopportune moment, requires explanation. He had been on the beach before, along with the others; and had gone away with the rest.
Two, Terence and Harry Blunt, were for immediately killing the maherry and making their breakfast upon its flesh; while the sailor joined Colin in voting that it should be reprieved. "Let us first make use of the animal to help carry us somewhere," argued the young Scotchman. "We can go without food a day longer. Then, if we find nothing, we can butcher this beast."
Even their children had ceased to clamour and squall. At intervals might be heard the neigh of a Barbary horse, the barking of a dog, the bleating of a goat, or a sound yet more appropriate to the scene, the snorting of a maherry. In addition to these, human voices were heard. But they proceeded from the throats of the sons of Shem.
Still tenaciously holding on to the hump, from which the young Irishman was using every effort to detach him, he saw that his only chance of safety lay in retreating from the spot, and, by this means, separating the antagonist who clutched him from the two others that threatened upon the ground below. A signal shout to the maherry was sufficient to effect his purpose.
One might suppose that this would have been their first movement. On the contrary, it was likely to be their very last; and for sufficient reasons which will be discovered in the conversation that ensued after they had swallowed their liquid breakfasts. Terence had proposed adopting this course, that is, to go in search of the man from whom the maherry must have wandered.
Thus we reach the end of our journeys quickly, and our masters cry: 'It is well! In days of old the Arabs said: 'When thou shalt meet a Heirie and say to the rider 'Peace be between us, ere he shall have answered 'There is peace between us, he will be far off, for his swiftness is like the wind." "Are they kind to you, these masters of yours, Maherry?" The Heirie laughed softly.
Ignorant of the impracticability of their attempt, our adventurers entered upon it with a spirit worthy of success worthy of the country from which they had come. For some time the maherry was led in hand, Old Bill being its conductor. All four had been well rested during the day; and none of them cared to ride.
As the rider of the maherry gave out this declaration, the animal was seen suddenly to increase its speed, not only in a progressive ratio, but at once to double quick, as if impelled by some powerful motive. At the same time it was heard to utter a strange cry, half scream, half snort, which could not have been caused by any action on the part of its rider.
He had not much climbing to do, for the well-trained maherry, when any one wished to mount him, at once knelt down, making the ascent to his "summits" as easy as possible. Just as the sailor had got firmly into the saddle, the moon shone out with a brilliance that almost rivalled the light of day.
Its owner, occupied with the "double" which it had so unexpectedly been called upon to carry, was conducting it only by his voice, and had neither thought nor hands for the halter. Once again the trailing end got into the split hoof, once again the maherry was tripped up; and came down neck foremost upon the sand.
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