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Isaacson remembered the sound he had heard when the Nubians lay on their oars on the dark river. "Let us try to do you good to-night. Won't you?" he said. "All I want is rest. I've told her so. And I tell you so." "Shall I stay on board to-night and see you to-morrow morning when you have had a night's rest?" Nigel looked up at his wife. "Aren't you quite near?" he asked Isaacson, in a moment.
"I will go to his palace and speak with him." "Seize him?" "I have no power to seize him, Effendina." "I will give it. My Nubians shall go also." "Effendina, I will go alone. It is the only way. There is great danger to the throne. Who can tell what a night will bring forth?" "If Harrik should escape " "If I were an Egyptian and permitted Harrik to escape, my life would pay for my failure.
The clerks have round crowns, and the lewd men have crowns all square. And they hold Christian law, as do they of Greece; of whom I have spoken of before. Other there be that men clepe Christian men of Girding, for they be all girt above. And there be other that men clept Nestorians. And some Arians, some Nubians, some of Greece, some of Ind, and some of Prester John's Land.
She drew back with a startled gasp; then stooped to look, and by the faint rays of the lanterns on mainmast and poop-rail she recognized Sir Oliver, and saw that he slept. She never heeded the two Nubians immovable as statues who kept guard. She continued to bend over him, and then gradually and very softly sank down on her knees beside him.
And now this new-comer who would rule Kaid, and lay his hand upon Egypt like Joseph of old, and bring back Nahoum, to the shame of every Muslim behold, the spark is to the tinder, it shall burn." "And the hour, Effendina?" "At midnight. The guns to be trained on the Citadel, the Palace surrounded. Kaid's Nubians?" "A hundred will be there, Effendina, the rest a mile away at their barracks."
"They are thine, then, O Ali, for two hundred and thirty. Give thanks to Allah for so good a bargain." The Nubians were surrendered to Ali's followers, whilst the dalal's two assistants advanced to settle accounts with the corsair. "Wait wait," said he, "is not the name of Sakr-el-Bahr good warranty?"
L'Encuerado, who, we had imagined, envied us our white skins, pitied us, in fact; as no doubt he would himself have been pitied by Nubians, because he was only copper-colored. "Why," said Lucien, who came up to us just as the discussion began, "are not all men the same color? What is the reason of it, M. Sumichrast?"
The Nubians had formed a strong league of tribes, and as the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia declined they drove back the Abyssinians, who had already established themselves at Meroe. In the sixth century the Nubians were converted to Christianity by a Byzantine priest, and they immediately began to develop.
At stated points were the Nubians, fine, tall, black, soldierly men, with red fez, khaki shirt, and short breeches, bare knees and feet, spiral puttees, and a broad red sash of webbing. One of these soldiers assigned us a place to camp. We directed our safari there, and then immediately rode over to pay our respects to the Commissioner.
On this Maximums agreed to a truce of a hundred years. The people now called the Nubians, living on both sides of the cataract of Syênê, declared themselves of the true Egyptian race by their religious practices.
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