THE FEAST WITH THE ANEZEH 



his purity; that I was making pictures of him 

 as they had seen and that I was going to write 

 of his greatness. 



"I have presented to this man," cried the 

 chief eloquently, "the great war mare which 

 came to me from your great Sheikh, Hashem 



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Just out of our tent squatted this young Anezeh Bedouin. 



Bey. You know, as all Bedouins know, that 

 no European could have purchased that mare 

 at any price ( and here all his auditors grunted 

 their assent) , but I have given to him the mare 

 Wadduda, whose name means love and affec- 

 tion, and under that namcl have given her to 



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