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I, Yusuf Salah-ed-din," and he rose as he said the words, his very beard bristling with wrath, "declare the Holy War, and will sweep them to the sea. Choose now, you brethren. Do you fight for me or against me? Or will you give up your swords and bide here as my prisoners?" "We are the servants of the Cross," answered Godwin, "and cannot lift steel against it and thereby lose our souls."
Tell me whether, respecting my father's memory, I ought to have such a good opinion of myself as to sit in judgement over him, with the intention of giving my sentence against him?" My lively remonstrance moved Yusuf deeply, but after a few instants of silence he said to me, "With such feelings, my son, you are sure to find grace in the eyes of God, and you are, therefore, one of the elect.
He did so, and ordered all his crew to go on board again immediately, for he intended to sail to Tripoli, to which city he belonged. Yusuf also determined to make for Biserta, and they all embarked with as much speed as they use when they discover galleys to give them chase or merchant craft to plunder. They had reason for this haste, for the weather seemed to be changing, and to threaten a storm.
I lacked nothing except freedom and the truth. Doubt and fear preyed upon my heart till at length I fell ill and scarcely cared to walk in the garden. One day when Yusuf visited me I told him that he would not need to come many more times, since I felt that I was going to die. "Do not die," he answered, "since then perchance you will find you have done so in vain," and he left me.
Mustapha Bey, who took a very affectionate leave of me, is now engaged in examining a tremendous case of peculation something like a defalcation of two thousand mahboubs. He is quite bewildered for the time. The Greek doctor came to see us off; but we started in a little confusion, for Mr. Yusuf Moknee was drunk, as he was nearly all the time of our stay at Mourzuk.
We had a good dinner; there was no prepared dish except the cauroman, a peculiar delicacy of the Turks. I drank water and hydromel, and I told Yusuf that I preferred the last to wine, of which I never took much at that time.
Jakmak's relations with the foreign chiefs were most friendly. He constantly exchanged letters and gifts with both Sultan Murad and Shah Roch. The sons of Kara Yelek and the princes of the houses of Ramadhan and Dudgadir submitted to him; also Jihangir, Kara Yelek's grandson and Governor of Amid, tried to secure his friendship, as did the latter's deadly enemy, Jihan Shah, the son of Kara Yusuf.
'With hope, infinite hope beyond, said Arthur, trying to fortify himself. 'No, I cannot, cannot deny my Lord my Lord that bought me! 'We own Issa Ben Mariam for a Prophet, said Yusuf. 'But He is my only Master, my Redeemer, and God. No, come what may, I can never renounce Him, said Arthur with vehemence. 'Wed, awed, said Yusuf, 'maybe ye'll see in time what's for your gude.
10th Sept. continued. Yusuf has been to the town, but has come back without any authentic news of the departure of the caravans for Zinder. He says, however, that En-Noor is better; and that it is reported that the first caravan will go in fifteen or twenty days, and the second and largest, with which En-Noor himself talks of setting out, about twenty days afterwards.
The leader of the victorious tribe, Yusuf Al-Fehri, now assumed supreme power, which he exercised nearly ten years as an independent ruler, without reference to the court of Damascus. The state of affairs in the East, indeed, left little leisure to the Umeyyan khalifs to attend to the regulation of a remote province.
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