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Updated: June 9, 2025
Let us lift that curtain which shrouds thy great Saara, and look upon some pictures that should teach the son of Shem, while despising his brothers Ham and Japhet, that he is not master of the world. Dread is that shore between Susa and Senegal, on the western edge of Africa by mariners most dreaded of any other in the world. The very thought of it causes the sailor to shiver with affright.
That was the question that arose to the lips of all. You may fancy it could have been easily answered. The direction of the wind and waves was landward. It was the sea-breeze, which at night, as every navigator is aware, blows habitually towards the land at least in the region of the tropics, and more especially towards the hot Saara. The tide itself might have told them the direction to take.
Other caravans Spanish ones cross the western wing of the Desert, from Sonora to California, and thence to New Mexico. Thus, you see, the American Desert has its caravans as well as the Saara of Africa.
The two men, after staring at each other for a moment, uttered the words, "Jim!" "Bill!" and then, springing forward, each grasped the hand of the other. Two brothers had met! The three mids remembered that Bill had told them of a brother, who, when last heard from was a slave somewhere in the Saara, and they needed no explanation of the scene now presented to them.
The army at Saara, on hearing the firing, betook itself again to arms and marched to the king's assistance, the twenty-five thousand men and their bands again joining in the triumphant hymn, "Nun danket alle Gott," as they tramped through the darkness. When they arrived at Lissa they found that all was safe, and bivouacked in the fields.
"You have asked me to give an account of my life since I have been shipwrecked. I cannot do that; but I shall give you an easy rule by which you may know all about it. We will suppose you have all been three months in the Saara, and Bill here says that I have been here ten years; therefore I have experienced about forty times as long a period of slavery as one of yourselves.
Upon the top of its hump was a small flat pad or saddle firmly held in its place by a strong leathern band passing under the animal's belly. This proved to be a "maherry," or riding camel one of those swift creatures used by the Arabs in their long rapid journeys across the deserts; and which are common among the tribes inhabiting the Saara.
Custom, founded on some good purpose, has established a similar rule on the great sandy ocean of the Saara. "I wish they were robbers, and would take us from Golah!" said Colin. "We should then perhaps be carried to the north, where we might be ransomed some time or other. As it is, if we are to be taken to Timbuctoo, we shall never escape out of Africa."
There was for all that a danger, great as it was imminent; the danger, not only of their being "smoored", but stifled, suffocated, buried fathoms deep under the sands of the Saara; for fathoms deep will often be the drift of a single night. The Arabs say that, once "submerged" beneath the arenaceous "flood", a man loses the power to extricate himself.
"Bother the laws of the Saara!" exclaimed Fatima, with a disdainful toss of her head, and a scornful turning up of her two protruding teeth; "all stuff and nonsense! There's no law in the Saara; and if there was, you know we're never coming into it again.
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