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Updated: May 25, 2025
Writing on 24th June to his cousin, Dr. Edward John Burton, he says, "We returned here on the 18th inst., and the first thing I heard was the murder of my arch-enemy, Rashid Pasha. Serve the scoundrel right. He prevented my going to Constantinople and to Sana'a, in Arabia. I knew the murderous rascal too well to trust him. Maria wrote to me about poor Stisted's death.
White horses reared and plunged. A wind sang through the grass and thistles of the dunes, driving the sand into my face. Rashîd, who had been riding far behind, in conversation with our muleteer, came tearing up, and I could hear the shouts of the mukâri urging his two beasts to hurry. 'There is a village on the headland over there a village of Circassian settlers, cried my servant, breathless.
Accordingly, I smiled and nodded to the villagers, and rode back up the path a little way, Rashîd obeying my example with reluctance, muttering curses on their faith and ancestry. Then we dismounted and lay down in the shadow of some rocks. It wanted still two hours before the sun would set. Suleymân came on us, and dismounted at a call from me.
His warning against native counsellors, however, weighed with me to this extent, that I determined to ignore the lands they recommended in their neighbourhood. Each was at first cast down when I announced this resolution. But presently Rashîd exclaimed: 'No matter where we dwell.
In different masquerade the streets, bazaars and walled houses of the occidental city of romance were filled with the same kind of folk that so much interested our interesting old friend, the late Mr. H. A. Rashid. They wore clothes eleven hundred years nearer to the latest styles than H. A. saw in old Bagdad; but they were about the same people underneath.
'To lie is the salt of a man; the shame is to him who believes, put in Rashîd, my servant, who was great at proverbs. Suleymân paid no heed to the interruption. 'A sin committed thoughtlessly, said he, 'is light compared with one which thou hast hatched and planned. 'Nay, O beloved, a sin is a sin, appointed so by the Most High; and the duty of a man is to avoid it.
He had $42,000,000 in preferred stocks and bonds with solid gold edges. In these times, to be called a caliph you must have money. The old-style caliph business as conducted by Mr. Rashid is not safe. If you hold up a person nowadays in a bazaar or a Turkish bath or a side street, and inquire into his private and personal affairs, the police court'll get you.
Rashîd made a grimace at hearing of it and, when I asked him why, looked down his nose and said: 'He has our gun. 'Aye, to be sure, and so he has! I said. 'To-morrow I must not forget to ask him for it. Rashîd looked big with tidings, but restrained himself and merely growled: 'You will not ask for it. I know your Honour! Nor will that rogue return it of his own accord.
Another minute and the corpse was hanging from the balcony, while we lay out and waited, talking in low tones. The bark of foxes came from vineyards near at hand, where there were unripe grapes. 'Our vines have tender grapes, our host repeated; making me think of the fable of the fox and the grapes, which I related to Rashîd in Arabic as best I could.
He might quite reasonably have supposed me to be very wealthy. But I was not in reasonable mood just then. I paid the bill, but in an angry manner; and while I was still talking to him, the Cawwâs arrived, and, close upon his heels, Rashîd in tears, to tell me that the carriage was in waiting.
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