CHAPTER XVIII 



OF SAID ABDALLAH AND HIS NOTIONS OF 



AMERICA. 



Said Abdallah, my Bedouin groom boy, 

 constantly asserted all through the voyage 

 from Alexandretta that Allah was with us and 

 would bring us in safety to the end. His faith 

 had helped us out of the dumps in Naples and 

 his devotion to us and to the horses should not 

 go unremembered. When Akmet Haffez 

 presented to me Wadduda, the war mare, 

 Said came with the gift and ever after counted 

 himself as one of my family. To guard him 

 against fits of homesickness or melancholy, be- 

 fore he had learned to speak any English, I 

 often took him with me, especially when I took 

 mv own children to shows and circuses. He 

 had never seen even a street fakir in his own 

 country, so that the strain was naturally very 

 heavy on a brain so undeveloped and at first 

 it seemed a little dangerous to show him the 



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