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The old housekeeper appeared at the door, started with a suppressed cry and flung herself at her young master's feet. He raised her and touched her cheek with his lips. "Bring me somewhat to eat and drink, Sema," he said weakly. "I have fasted, since I returned here, well-nigh four days agone."
Your flying ship is very great," the Arab admitted. "But Allah and his Prophet are greater! Allahu akbar!" "Of course. But tell thou me, Rrisa, if I were to appear at Mecca in my Nissr Arrib ela Sema my Eagle of the Sky would not thy people give me great honors?"
A strong tremor ran over him and he averted his face. The murket came to his side and smoothed the damp hair. The old housekeeper entered with broth and bread and a bottle of wine. Mentu broke the bread and filled the beaker, while Sema stood aloof and gazed with troubled eyes at the unhappy face of the young master.
The ghoul of eastern nations is but the same being, altered to suit habits and localities; and the sema of the Scandinavians is but the vampyre of a more primitive race, and a personification of that morbid imagination which has once fancied the probability of the dead walking again among the living, with all the frightful insignia of corruption and the grave about them.
The poem is a contention between an upland and a lowland shepherd, and begins in genuine pastoral fashion: Come Titan del seno dell' aurora Esce, così con le mie pecorelle I monti cerco sema far dimora.
"What's the idea?" demanded the major ruefully. "You know very well, Major, my ruling on alcohol. It doesn't mix with any motive power on this trip. Moreover, it's customary to christen every launching with champagne. We've done it!" "Well, that's not so bad an idea, at that," Bohannan admitted, scratching his fiery head. "What name have you given this bus?" "Nissr Arrib ela Sema."
It seems surprising that a vegetable production so universally spread should have different names among neighbouring people. The following are the synonyms in thirteen languages. North America. Aztec or Mexican; yetl: Algonkin; sema: Huron; oyngoua. South America. Peruvian or Quichua; sayri: Chiquito; pais. Omagua; petema. Tamanac; cavas. Maypure; jema.
He turned it, finally, square down the launching-way, through the yawning gates where the track abruptly ended at the brow of the Palisades the empty chasm where, if all went right and no mistake had been made in build, engine-power, or control, the initial leap of Nissr Arrib ela Sema was to be made. Came a moment's wait. Faintly the pulsing of the engines trembled the fabric of Nissr.
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