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Updated: June 17, 2025
I need not say we were weary of this indecision, so we sent a letter to the sultan of Shibahm by a messenger saying, 'We have been here three days; what are we to do next? and planned that Imam Sharif should ride over next day, as he could communicate 'mouth to mouth' with the sultan in Hindustani.
The Marid hath got hold of me! Hardly had she made an end of speaking, when the Marid swooped down upon the house and, snatching up the bride, flew away with her; whereupon there arose a mighty clamour and behold, in came the Sharif, buffetting his face and crying, 'O Abu Mohammed, what is this deed thou hast done? Is it thus thou requiitest us?
The Hejazis' ingenuous idea was to go on taking money from us, the Turks and the Sharif, while thanks to our lenient blockade a regular dhow-traffic fed them. We did not approve of this Utopian policy, and the fall of Kut brought matters to a climax.
Imam Sharif is himself a seyyid or sherif, a descendant of Mohammed, his family having come from Medina, so he was always much respected.
We had to cross much swampy ground, and got our feet wet, without catching the inevitable fever. Imam Sharif camped away from us one night and found that the streams which feed them have their source up in the limestone, about two days' journey from them.
He paused at a gesture from Kaid, for a slave had entered and stood waiting. "What dost thou here? Wert thou not commanded?" asked Kaid. "Effendina, Claridge Pasha is waiting," was the reply. Kaid frowned, hesitated; then, with a sudden resolve, made a gesture of dismissal to Sharif Bey, and nodded David's admittance to the slave.
There was a little deck 3 feet by 4 feet at its widest, where Imam Sharif and I were packed, the steersman sitting in a little angle, leaning against my gaiters. About ten o'clock Matthaios began to make some tea, but soon had to retreat to the bow very sick.
He is a very disagreeable-looking man, who was much offended because Imam Sharif would neither kiss his hand, being a seyyid himself, nor let his own be kissed. I squatted down, and round me soon squatted many more ladies they were certainly not beautiful, but one, who was nearest to me and seemed to be my guardian or showman, had a very nice, kind, clever face. Her lips were not so large as most.
That night and the next day, he kept the body between his feet the body of the little child he kept save when he swung it. No man could prevent. For this reason I am his to him; and he is mine to me!" "Well done, well done!" the mellow voice of Kudrat Sharif spoke softly; and the mahouts of the Chief Commissioner's stockades assented.
He paused at a gesture from Kaid, for a slave had entered and stood waiting. "What dost thou here? Wert thou not commanded?" asked Kaid. "Effendina, Claridge Pasha is waiting," was the reply. Kaid frowned, hesitated; then, with a sudden resolve, made a gesture of dismissal to Sharif Bey, and nodded David's admittance to the slave.
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