Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles Montagu Doughty

Author:Charles Montagu Doughty [Doughty, Charles Montagu]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General, Social Science, History, Travel, Religion, Philosophy, Customs & Traditions, Middle East, Foreign Language Study, Arabic
ISBN: 9781108009478
Publisher: General Books LLC
Published: 2009-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

SHEYKH NASIR ES-SM1RY.

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among them, that Ibn Saud would withdraw from these parts ; and then would Ibn Kashid return home. Their parleying had not been without some glorious loud words of Hamud el-Abeyd [v. supra p. 18] on the behalf of Ibn Kashid ; and in such the princely man behaved himself ' like a Beduwy.'-Three days the good Bessam was a guest in the menzil of the Shammar Emir; and towards evening when he would depart the Prince Mohammed bade Mufarrij, ' lead round the red mare for Sheykh Abdullah ! ' But the prudent and incorrupt citizen was in no wise to be persuaded to receive a gift from Ibn Eashid of such price. The Emir said, ' then bring the thelul, and mount the Sheykh Abdullah thereon ! '— This was accepted ; and Ibn Bashid clothed the two honourable men ambassadors from Aneyza with scarlet mantles and silken kerchiefs ; and gave garments to those who followed them : and they returned to the town.—The other Bessam houses in Aneyza, though some of them had trafficked with the Franks in the ports (saving a younger Abdullah, now of the foreign merchants in Bosra) were Wahabies. The people said of Abdullah, " he is a good man, but his sons are afun (corrupted) ! ' That might be of the moral malaria in the port-town of Mecca ; or the unlooked-for accident of many honest fathers, that the graft of their blood in the mother's stock was faulty.

Sheykh Nasir was of the B. Khalid families : there is a Beduishness in them more than in the Temimies. Though stiff in opinions, he answered me better than any man, and with a natural frankness ; especially when I asked him of the history and topography of these countries : and he first traced for me, with his pen, the situation of the southern Harms, — B. Abdillah, Kesshab, Turr'a, 'Ashiry, 'Ajeyja, (Rodwa, Jeheyna;) which, with the rest of the vulcanic train described in this work, before my voyage in Arabia, were not heard of in Europe. Not long before he had embarked some of the honest gain of his years of exile under the Ked Sea climate, with two more Jidda merchants, in a lading to India. Tidings out of the caravan season may hardly pass the great desert; but he had word in these days, by certain who came up by hap from Mecca, that their vessel had not been heard of since her sailing ! and now it was feared that the ship must be lost. These foreign merchants at the ports do never cover their sea and fire risks by an assurance,—such were in their eyes a deed of unbelief ! In the meanwhile sheykh Nasir bore this incertitude of God's hand with the severe serenity of a right Moslem.

-This was the best company in the town; the dinner-tray

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