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The treaty was to be binding on the Cheyennes, for the Ogallallas as well as the Brules, and therefore Souk and his father would be greatly benefited by her marriage to the Cheyennes. This astounding intelligence came near upsetting Souk's better judgment, and for a while he was nearly demented.
The people call camels' flesh their beef; it does serve as a substitute for bullocks' flesh, no bullocks being killed here. The whole carcase was immediately sold as soon as exposed in the Souk. 13th.
Slowly the winter months dragged along, and to the impatient Souk they seemed interminable; but at length the water began to come down from the mountains, and the ice grew soft on the streams. As soon as he saw these indications of returning spring, Souk called his bravest friends together and set out from the camp.
I observed they were all well clothed and seemed to live in Saharan affluence. The term Berkat, بركت, signifies "a lake" or "lagoon," and probably the site of the oasis is the dry bottom of what was formerly a lagoon. The Berkat oasis is larger in gardens, and more fertile than Ghat, but possesses the same essential features. It has no Souk, and excites no attention from strangers visiting Ghat.
As the summer months wore away, and no word was received from the Brule camp, Souk became each day more restless, and finally, calling together a few friends, started once more for the Brule's home. He was received most cordially by the old chief, and, as before, given most hospitable entertainment.
He found the lair half a mile out, where the beast had eaten a part of his beloved, and, as he looked at the blood-stains on the ground, his brain seemed about to burst from his skull. Pieces of garments were left on some of the bushes where the bear had dragged the body along. Far up into the mountains Souk followed the trail, but at length lost it among the rocks.
Before leaving the Brule camp, Souk and Chaf-fa-ly-a had vowed a true lover's vow, that, come what would of the council, they would be faithful to each other, and die rather than break their plighted troth. Souk had also promised his betrothed he would return in the fall and make her his wife, with or without the consent of the tribes.
From this peaceful corner one passes into the barbaric splendor of a souk hung with innumerable plumy bunches of floss silk skeins of citron yellow, crimson, grasshopper green and pure purple. This is the silk-spinners' quarter, and next to it comes that of the dyers, with great seething vats into which the raw silk is plunged, and ropes overhead where the rainbow masses are hung out to dry.
The lovers were the first to move on, and, when once in the saddle, they lost no time. It was past noon when Souk saw some objects several miles off to the left, and soon made them out to be part of the Brules, who were making for the river, to cut him off from the ford. The race was a long one, but the lovers won it, and crossed in safety.
His faithful warriors had returned, but they hardly knew their beloved young chief, so changed was he. At the door of his father's lodge his brave horse fell dead, and Souk rolled over on the ground insensible. He was carefully lifted up and laid on his own bed, where for many days he remained in a raging fever, at times delirious, and calling wildly on the name of Chaf-fa-ly-a.
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