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ALI?S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.
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and found me sitting on the divan by the side of
the pacha; that the pacha took me by the hand>
told him that I was his (the pacha's) particular
friend, and that he, Sheik El Alouin, must conduct
me first to Mount Hor, and then to Khalil or He-
bron, and that he had given his head to Moham-
med Aly for my safety. Paul was constantly
moving between me and the group around the
spear, and advising me of the progress of affairs i
and when I heard who I was, and of my intimacy
with the pacha, thinking that it was not exactly the
thing for the particular friend of the Viceroy of
Egypt to be sprawling on tfte sand, I got up, and,
for the credit of my friend, put myself rather more
upon my dignity. We remained here half an
hour, when, seeing that matters became no worse>
I took it for granted that they were better 5 and,
after moving about a little, I began to arrange the
saddle of my horse 5 and, by-and-by, as a sort of
declaration of independence, I told them that I
would ride on slowly, and they could follow at their
convenience. The sheik remained to settle with
my new friends. They were a caravan belonging
to the El Alouin tribe, from the tents at the mouth
of the entrance to Petra, now on their way to
Gaza; and the sheik got rid of them by paying
them something, and assuring them that we had
not been in Petra.
Early in the afternoon a favourite camel was
taken sick, stumbled, and fell; and we turned aside
among the mountains, where we were completely
VOL. II.—K
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and found me sitting on the divan by the side of
the pacha; that the pacha took me by the hand>
told him that I was his (the pacha's) particular
friend, and that he, Sheik El Alouin, must conduct
me first to Mount Hor, and then to Khalil or He-
bron, and that he had given his head to Moham-
med Aly for my safety. Paul was constantly
moving between me and the group around the
spear, and advising me of the progress of affairs i
and when I heard who I was, and of my intimacy
with the pacha, thinking that it was not exactly the
thing for the particular friend of the Viceroy of
Egypt to be sprawling on tfte sand, I got up, and,
for the credit of my friend, put myself rather more
upon my dignity. We remained here half an
hour, when, seeing that matters became no worse>
I took it for granted that they were better 5 and,
after moving about a little, I began to arrange the
saddle of my horse 5 and, by-and-by, as a sort of
declaration of independence, I told them that I
would ride on slowly, and they could follow at their
convenience. The sheik remained to settle with
my new friends. They were a caravan belonging
to the El Alouin tribe, from the tents at the mouth
of the entrance to Petra, now on their way to
Gaza; and the sheik got rid of them by paying
them something, and assuring them that we had
not been in Petra.
Early in the afternoon a favourite camel was
taken sick, stumbled, and fell; and we turned aside
among the mountains, where we were completely
VOL. II.—K