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What is still more remarkable is that heavy game sometimes will do so too. Heavy firing was once heard far south of Burao, and a mounted force pushed out thinking it was the Mullah's people going for our "friendlies" out grazing. A rhinoceros on trek for water and nearly mad with thirst had winded the waterskins in a Somali grazing camp and charged through the zareba to get at them.
We gave them some presents, saying it was not an everyday occurrence, but that this was a great feast with us; so we made friends. The Bedouin were very unruly about the packing. We could not get our most needful things kept handy, and they liked to pack our bread with their fish, and the waterskins anywhere among our bedding.
When she read this, she had compassion upon him and said to Behram, 'Sell me this slave. 'O my lady, answered he, 'I cannot sell him, for he is the only slave I have left. Quoth she, 'I must have him of thee, either by purchase or as a gift. But Behram said, 'I will neither sell him nor give him. Whereat she was wroth and taking Asaad by the hand, carried him up to the palace and sent to Behram, saying, 'Except thou set sail and depart our city this very night, I will seize all thy goods and break up thy ship. When the message reached the Magian, he was sore troubled and said, 'Verily, this voyage is every way unfortunate. Then he made ready and took all he needed and awaited the coming of the night, to resume his voyage, saying to the sailors, 'Provide yourselves and fill the waterskins, that we may set sail at the last of the night. So the sailors did their occasions and awaited the coming of the night.
The men with their steeds, like conquerors of clans, like Aryaman, the Maruts, carrying waterskins, fill the well; when the strong ones roar, they moisten the earth with the juice of sweetness. When the Maruts come forth this earth bows, the heaven bows, the paths in the sky bow, and the cloud-mountains with their quickening rain.
"Shall we empty the waterskins so as to make the loads lighter for the attack?" asks a Baluchi. "No," answers Shah Sevar; "keep all the water that is left, for we may not be able to fill the skins in the town before our retreat." "It is time," he says; "have your weapons ready." They mount again and ride slowly towards the town.
These were loaded with the doora and the waterskins of the raiders, but a few minutes sufficed to redistribute their loads and to make place for the prisoners. None of these had been bound with the exception of Mr.
I conjure Thee, by Thy love to me forthwith to pour out upon us Thy rain-clouds of grace! He spake and hardly had he made an end of speaking, when the heavens clouded over and there came a rain, as if the mouths of waterskins had been opened; and when we left the oratory, we were knee-deep in water," And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
When it was the Four Hundred and Sixty-eighth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that "hardly had he spoken when the heavens clouded over and there came a rain, as if the mouths of waterskins had been opened. And when we left the oratory we were knee-deep in water, and we were lost in wonder at the black.
At this place the guide told us we were to fill our waterskins, and to quit the river for the desert. We stayed here till the afternoon of the 8th of the moon. The two last nights we have kept watch, and only slept with our hands upon our arms, robbers being, we were told, in this neighborhood, who had lately pillaged some caravans. We were not, however, molested.
We were to fill all our waterskins from a remarkably fine well of particularly sweet water at Hadi, so we took only a couple of skinfuls with us.
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