CHAPTER X 



AN IMPORTANT CEREMONY IN WHICH I WAS ONE 



OF THE PRINCIPALS A CIRCASSIAN VILLAGE 



WITH A VISIT TO THE GOVERNOR AND WHAT 

 BEFELL SHEIKH ALI 



Arthur INIoore, riding Akmet Haffez's 

 Abeyeh Sherrakieh mare, an animal with a 

 wonderful head and build, was to go back to 

 Aleppo at this time with Jack Thompson and 

 Faiot, Haffez's younger son, to procure more 

 tea, of which the Bedouins were very fond. 

 Indeed we had used up nearly all we had 

 brought out for the entire trip, in our first three 

 days at the camp. He was also going to bring 

 some more gold, and his INIauser rifle. We 

 were nine hours ride, about thirty-five or thir- 

 ty-six miles from Aleppo, and while my com- 

 panions were gone I tried to come to an agree- 

 ment with Haffez over the mare which JMoore 

 was riding. She had been taken in war by 

 the Anezeh, from the Shammar, across the 

 Euphrates, and her pedigree bore the last seal 



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