CHAPTER XIII 



STARTING ON THE RETURN JOURNEY AND SOME 

 ORIENTAL BARGAINING — ^THE BEGINNING OF 

 THE STORY OF THE MARE. 



Hashem Bey was left behind, and though 

 our faces were once more turned toward the 

 west we were still in the desert and were 

 to have more adventures and to witness moue 

 shrewd oriental bargaining on the part of 

 Akmet Haffez. After leaving the main body 

 of the Anezeh we rode for five hours and 

 camped near a spring which bubbled up from 

 under the hot rocks. 



We were waked in the morning by the 

 neighing of the horses we had purchased and 

 found we had been aroused by the approach 

 of a Bedouin riding a bay mare and leading a 

 two-year-old colt. 



The latter, it seemed, was the Seglawi Jed- 

 ran colt, which the Anezeh had promised to 

 send to me for inspection. Before we could 



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