6 Bedouin Tribes of the EiipJirates. [en. xa-i. 



politics of Europe and the Empire. His history, I 

 believe, is this. As a young man he was taken up 

 by Vefyk EfFendi, who with Midliat Pasha was 

 anxious to form a school of politicians in Turkey 

 with modern views and modern principles. These 

 loudly professed the doctrine, new to Ottoman ears, 

 that honesty was the best policy, and carried out, I 

 believe, their principle fairly. Unfoi^tunately the 

 band of followers was never numerous,, and Kad- 

 derly seems to have been the only one who distin- 

 guished himself in the world. He had educated 

 himself when past twenty, and after filling various 

 minor offices, had now been promoted by his first 

 patron to the rank of Valy. 



Kadderly Pasha was straight from Stamboul, 

 having left the capital not three weeks before, and 

 had all the contempt, which a European, fresh from 

 witnessing the great events of history, (for he had 

 left the Russians at the gates of Constantinople), 

 could not help feeling for the petty politics of 

 Arabia. He did not, in ftict, so much as ask what 

 was going on among the Bedouins, but ignored the 

 whole matter, afiecting only an interest in the ruins 

 of El Haddr and the prospects of a Euphrates 

 valley railway. This European line of thought 

 suited us admirably ; and we discoursed, as learnedly 

 as we could, on archaeology and civil engineering, 

 and a little on the attempted improvements of his 

 former predecessor and patron Midliat at Bagdad. 



On these the Valy spoke as sensibly as a first 



