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ers. Other ships had broken their anchor 

 chains. Then it seemed that Allah had indeed 

 saved us. The faith of Said was often com- 

 forting. And we needed the comfort, for we 

 seemed to be completely sidetracked. We ap- 

 pealed to the American Consul at Naples and 

 that official did everything both officially and 

 personally. He communicated with all the 

 officers of the steamship company, but all of 

 them said in effect: "You will have to wait." 

 Wait! We who were just back from the East 

 knew what waiting meant! Just simply — 

 never. 



I had in my pocket the bills of lading which 

 called for the delivery of the horses in New 

 York on September 28, but that seemed to 

 make no difference with the steamship com- 

 pany. The local agent explained easily that 

 we would have to wait for the next boat, the 

 Italia. The Italia arrived at Genoa en route 

 for Naples and we were informed that she 

 could not take horses because of the emi- 

 grants. Each day brought a new plan. Now 

 we would ship the horses to London, but no 

 boats would take us to London ; now we would 

 ship to France, but no boats would take us to 

 France^ now we would charter a special steam- 



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