St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1870-08-19
The BeROttiIl LIrU6S.--2.

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about the Bedouins There is some
thing strangely tascir atiug about them
after you've once been among them AMI
got safely lone again. I'll not say but
distance may lcrd some cnchautment 10
the names and memory of those old
Desert friends, bat | protest it isn't all
distance. remembering how hardly re-
pressed Il biz round tear when the last
adicu was said and ;hey turned waving
a final 'taiyib Nowadjl," under the
palms of GAIA.
Sheikh IIas>an and his fifteen camel
men came up 10 our tents at the Red
sea to take Us through the Sinai deserts.
The Sheikh was about fifty years old,
hone>t-luoking, kini-lIeartcd, spare in
flesh and poor in purse. He wore the
striped robe (0'JeA) of the desert, hang
inc from shoulder to ankle, with alter
nate stripes of brown and white, each
stripe about three inches wide On his
heal was the kerchief (lJty,A) striped
yellow and red, tr1ngeI and ta-selcl, the
taSScls hanging on cords several inches
long, which would sweep behind and
rattle over the shoulders when riding
rapidly. This makes the usual dress of
the desert, costing al the way from 50
20 .::IO, but there are mutitudcs who
cannot afford rs much as this. .Sauch.
my ca,uel man, had only a ragged brown
robe, and for Il heal dress only his long
hair. well creased, plated and hanging
in lovely braids over his shoulders Sui
ein,cH (Solomon) wore Il Sleeps pclt with
the wool outside. and this with the
broad hlale OF his cutla-s dangling under
it, made a tolerahly good locking ranni.
bal Of him. .Noua was well-bchaved
a., Arab, and as ''meck" perhaps as his an.
cicnt namcsake who led Israel ike y
=. flock. wish young Sheikh Achnne
could show his face this way, for he wa:
a finer looking man than we are apt tc
!, scc-thcre was a gallant officer in oul
army VI no reminds 'ne of him, the MAJ
-, mean to whom Gen. Lee did the honol
to surrender his sword-and | don
>. know that Shcikh Achmet was any Tia,
. less comely for b2iu. black.
Besides these BcGouins, there was al
~ Alb s,inian with u, who carried witt
i him the unmis'akabic jaw and lip OF tn,
: ElhiOp, and stood a. target for yolics o
Arab Wit but the wit usually reboundeo
from his huge jaw in way to convuis,
both Arabians and Americans though
all the latter knew about it was tia
+ Aby>sinia '.jawcd back" to Arabia. In
% deed we could not have 20! on withou
+, the Ethiop to play the Samson an,
make sport for US although he left u
. before we reached the gates of GAIA
and Sam-on's ancient playground.
. Before striking into the desert our BE
! douins groomcd their camels This up
s Grafton consisted in scraping them down
with potshe.ds, a patriarchial way, Il
E appears from Job ii, S. Then the,
brought up the beasts one by one, pro
-. posing that we take Il short pleasure rid,
around the tents to see what good,
camel flesh they were providing (bon
e rather, for the flesh did not Anywhere
1t appcar) 50 they got upon their knee
= (the camels) and we got upon the
e backs. l will not now describe wha
d followed, hut remember how the ShcikI
II and his men danced and clappeI tLei
II hands and screamed with laughter. anC
e cried again aud again Yoh.La-UormIl
Of lah-hd-HoradH! and it was worth :
= short Journey to see such extravaoan
merrment even at ones own expense
= For 80 say the truth, we Howadji wer
c not exactly brought up on camel back
!, ami it became evident that the barbara
!, island of Amerika Sas rapidly losin!
y prestige here by the Red Sea. However
we improved and the Bedouin encouraged
: US by shouting taigb which is the uni
e versal word, and is as much as TO say
= good, go on; and so we went on, anC
IS they followed. and we and they came tc
d be good friends at once, and never had 6