. The book of the long trail. lace of danger, and no one likes to find himself there. At early dawn the caravan entered the ill-famedgorge called the Pilgrimage Pass, and as the pilgrimswent up it in anxious silence they were suddenly awareof thin blue curls of smoke among the rocks. Directlyafter shots rang out and echoed across the gorge. TheBadawin swarmed on to the cliffs like cats and fireddown on to the caravan from their impregnable fired chiefly on the escort, and it was useless toretaliate as the enemy kept well hidden behind thestones. Besides, had one of these robbers
. The book of the long trail. lace of danger, and no one likes to find himself there. At early dawn the caravan entered the ill-famedgorge called the Pilgrimage Pass, and as the pilgrimswent up it in anxious silence they were suddenly awareof thin blue curls of smoke among the rocks. Directlyafter shots rang out and echoed across the gorge. TheBadawin swarmed on to the cliffs like cats and fireddown on to the caravan from their impregnable fired chiefly on the escort, and it was useless toretaliate as the enemy kept well hidden behind thestones. Besides, had one of these robbers been killedthe whole country would have risen and would probablyhave destroyed the caravan to a man. The Albaniansoldiers called for help from a party of Shaykhs. Butthe dignified old men, dismounting and squatting incouncil round their pipes, came to the conclusion that,as the robbers would probably turn a deaf ear to theirwords, they had better spare themselves the troubleof speaking. The travellers covered themselves with. Fired down on to the caravan from their impregnable positions. 66 THE BOOK OF THE LONG TRAIL as much smoke as possible and pushed on. They lostaltogether twelve men besides a number of eleven next morning they reached Suwaykah, whereBurton pitched his tent under a mimosa tree, whoseshade is described by the Badawin as resembling afalse friend who deserts you when you most need left again at 4 , and the night passed inquarrels between the boy Mohammed and the camel-men, whom he succeeded in provoking so successfullythat they disappeared altogether. Mohammed shoutedafter them furiously when he found the dromedariesstumbling and falling once in every mile, but he gotnothing but black looks from the other camel-men,who muttered, By Allah ! and by Allah ! and by Allah !O boy, we will flog thee like a hound when we catchthee in the desert. Mohammed lost his temper entirely,and Burton was so much interested in listening to thistorrent of i
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