telhami

Updated: May 19, 2025

Here is our new friend, the dragoman George Cavalcanty, known as "Telhami," the Bethlehemite, standing beside us in the shelter of the orange-trees: a trim, alert figure, in his belted suit of khâki and his riding-boots of brown leather. "Is everything ready for the journey, George?" "Everything is prepared, according to the instructions you sent from Avalon.

Henry Van Dyke - Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit