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The veneration for Mulai Táïb of Wazzán, from whom the shareefs of that place are descended, is great, and the Aïsáwa, hailing from Mequinez, are to be met with all along this coast; they are especially strong at Kaïrwán.
Now I certainly had a roof above my head, but I could not make myself understood; for not a soul spoke Italian, and my whole knowledge of Arabic was comprised in the four words: taib, moi, sut, mafish beautiful, water, milk, and nothing. With so limited a stock of expressions at my command, I naturally could not make much way, and the next day I was placed in a very disagreeable dilemma.
This must be a bargain between me and thee." "Taib." "It is known," said Grim, "that you have money on deposit with the Bank of Egypt." "A lie! A lie!" snapped Ali Higg. "Who said it?" "Fifty thousand pounds in gold was the exact amount, deposited at six percent, and interest to be compounded every half-year," said Grim.
Four of the gunboats steamed up the river, keeping abreast of our widely spread out cavalry. About six o'clock the Lancers had again ascended to the top of El Taib, a hill from which at that hour I was enabled to get a view of the dervish camp. It appeared to be about ten miles due south. The Mahdists were disposed in three long dense lines, at almost right angle to the river.
You need clever fellows with you if you go to sup with Ali Higg." "Well? Are you coming?" "Taib. We are ready. But " "On my terms!" "But the pay is nothing!" "So is my pay nothing! This man" he pointed to me "gets no pay at all. Narayan Singh, the Sikh, gets less pay than a policeman." "Then what is the profit?" "For you? The honor of keeping your word.
"Then I shall find another way." "And how will you account for being so few men, when Rafiki's messenger will have said we are at least a score?" "Will that not be further proof that the man is a liar?" "If I did not know you of old I would say that is a fool's plan," remarked Ali Baba, and his sons grunted agreement. "But you have a devil of resourcefulness. Taib!
We start tonight." "Tomorrow will be a better moon, Jimgrim." "We want a full moon when we get to Petra. We start tonight. Come along; show me the camels." "It is hot now. There is a bad stink in the stables. Better see them when it gets cooler." "I'm going now. Are you coming with me?" "Taib. I will show them to you. They are good ones. They will make you proud.
By instructions, the Lancers rushed one of the many small villages, or groups of native mud-dwellings and beehive straw huts that dotted the sparse bush-land a mile or more inland from the river beyond Sheikh el Taib. Several of the enemy hastened away, and in one of the huts a man in dervish dress was found awaiting the troops.
If I rule here, I will put an end to this man's doings." "On my head and eyes be the words of my Lord." "And remind him further that the permits for the free passage of goods at the customs are granted only for his personal use, for the necessities of his household, and that the way Háj Taïb writes he has been selling them is a disgrace.
"Taib," she answered. "My men shall look for camels. I will go with you tonight." She went away then, leaving a smile behind her that would have coaxed the Sphinx, and rode down-street toward the ancient city on a big gray donkey guarded by two Bedouins armed with swords and spears. "Did I do all right?" asked de Crespigny. "Fine!" Grim answered. "You'll be ruling England one of these days, 'Crep.
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