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At Bada old Shaykh 'Afnan, whose tents are now pitched one day ahead of us, was taken into consultation upon the subject. He confirmed these statements of the Wakil, adding that the Shafah Mountains are a mere ridge, not the seaward walls of a plateau, and that the land east of them is exactly that which we have already traversed.
You have put an end to our proper business, Jimgrim. What could we do? We took our money and bought these camels, thinking to take a hand in the caravan trade." Grim looked into the old rogue's eyes and laughed. "In the land I come from," he said, "a capitalist with your predatory instincts would pay a lawyer by the year to tell him just how far he could safely go!" "A wakil?" sneered Ali Baba.
Elephants abound in Jarjar, the Erar forest, and in the Harirah and other valleys, where they resort during the hot season, in cold descending to the lower regions. The Gallas hunt the animals and receive for the spoil a little cloth: the Amir sends his ivory to Berberah, and sells it by means of a Wakil or agent.
The Baliyy modestly rate their numbers at four thousand muskets, by which understand four hundred. Yet they divide themselves into a multitude of clans; our companion, the Wakil Mohammed Shahadah, can enumerate them by the score; and I wrote down the twenty-three principal, which are common both to South Midian and to Egypt.
On the 27th of June Jusserat Khan sent on the Nawab's order by the English wakil, or agent, to Mr. Becher, the English Chief, and informed him of the capture of Fort William and the flight of Mr. Drake. Thinking this was merely a trick to frighten them into surrender, the Dacca Council requested Mr. Scrafton, third in Council, to write to M. Courtin, chief of the French Factory, for information.
He then led us about the neighbourhood, and ended with inviting the Sayyid, Furayj, and the Wakil Mohammed Shahadah to a copious feast. The fort is the usual square, straight-curtained work of solid masonry, with a circular bastion at each angle, and a huge arched main-entrance in the western facade.
A little to the south-west lies a kind of ossuary, a tumulus slightly raised above the wavy level, and showing a central pit choked with camels' bones: at least, we could find no other. And here I was told the Arab legend by the Wakil; who, openly deriding the Bedawi idea that the building could be a "Castle," opined that it was a Kanisah, a "Christian or pagan place of worship."
Tumangong, a local Malay officer. Tumbilans, a beautiful group of about 150 small islands between Borneo and Singapore. Tuppa, a Dyak god. Wakil, a deputy. Zedong, like the Tiran, which see. No. Proposed Exploring Expedition to the Asiatic Archipelago, by James Brooke, Esq. 1838.
We followed the long slope trending to the Wady el-Kurr, which drains the notable block of that name. Seeing the Wakil, and the others in front, cutting over the root to prevent rounding a prodigiously long tongue-tip, I was on the qui vive for the normal dodge; and presently the mulatto Abdullah screamed out that the Nakb must be avoided, as it was all rock.
Then, as now, the difficulty of dealing with native agents was to induce these agents to express their own opinions frankly and clearly. So far from the English Chief being corrected by his wakil, we find the latter, whilst applying to other nobles for patronage and assistance, studiously refraining from making any application to Siraj-ud-daula when English business had to be transacted at Court.
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