4 Bedouin Tribes of tJic Euphrates, [cir. xvr. 



future plans that gave us anxiety, for it was easy to 

 see that Ave should find no help from the Serai in 

 what we were now bent on, a visit to the Anazeh. 

 We resolved simply to say notliing at all about 

 them. 



Of Mr. S. the Pasha knew nothing, except that 

 he had heard of him as being at Aleppo a month 

 before, and expressed great surprise at our expecting 

 to find him again at Deyr. Kadderly Pasha, the 

 new Valy, would however arrive in a few hours, 

 and we should get the latest news. His own son 

 Zaklvi Bey, was travelling with the Valy, and he 

 was a friend of Mr. S.'s. So we were fain to be 

 content with the hope that perhaps the consul also 

 would be of the party, as, in a few lines that 

 had been waiting some time for us at Deyr from 

 him, he had spoken of his journey as a settled plan. 

 But why had he failed us ? This we could not 

 understand. 



The next day Huseyn was busy with the Valy, 

 and left us pretty much to ourselves ; and, when we 

 met again, there certainly was a (j&ae in his mjinner. 

 Considering the circumstances of the case, the un- 

 fortunate issue of the war with Eussia, the denuded 

 state of the garrisons on the Turkish frontier, and 

 the intrigues and disputes which were agitating the 

 desert round him, I think it is not surprising that 

 our persistence in visiting the Bedouin tribes, in 

 spite of all warnings and all hindrances, should 

 have aroused suspicions of us in Huseyn's official 



