This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...in numbers--that then we had three Sheikhs, but now were to have only one; hence two camels were to be deducted. Again, several water-casks and boxes were to be left behind--this would further diminish the number; and lastly, several of our camels had had hitherto but half a load--hence there should be still ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...in numbers--that then we had three Sheikhs, but now were to have only one; hence two camels were to be deducted. Again, several water-casks and boxes were to be left behind--this would further diminish the number; and lastly, several of our camels had had hitherto but half a load--hence there should be still greater diminu 198 ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. tion. But here the Sheikh had us completely. He triumphantly appealed to the written promise, and we found, too truly, that there the number of camels to be furnished at Akabah had been determined to be the same with the number contracted for with the Towarah at Cairo. Fortunately, we had really contracted for twenty-nine at Cairo, the rest having been added from necessity after the contract was drawn. We showed the contract to the Sheikh, and then appealed to the assembly if the deduction of two Sheikhs ought not make a deduction of twd camels. The appeal was successful, and, forced by public opinion, the Sheikh agreed to be satisfied with twenty-seven. The next subject was the route. He consented at once to take us to Petra, and allow us to remain there two days; but to conduct us to Hebron was impossible. There was the great bugbear of a quarantine there, and no Alawy was fool enough to put his neck in such.a noose. He would, however, take us to Dhahariyeh, a frontier village, six hours from Hebron. To this we were forced to consent, though we afterwards discovered it was a trick formed to compensate /for his want of success in making a private arrangement with us, for his hope of spoil had been entirely cut off from that source. The next item was the amount of daily travel; this was to be as many hours as we chose, except for the two days among the Petra mountains, in which, from the difficulty of...
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