1 2 Bedouin Tribes of the EupJiratcs. [ch. xvi. 



With this we were oblio;ed to content ourselves, — 

 reporting the result of our negotiation to the MoUah, 

 and making him a little present to console him for 

 the want of better success. 



AVe had now our own plans to attend to, for Ave 

 had been four days at Deyr, and still there was no 

 sign or word from Mr. S. This is how we set about 

 it. First of all the spy Nejran had to be dismissed ; 

 and this was done, without ceremony on either side, 

 Wilfrid merely bidding him be off, and he replying 

 " heyfac" (as you please). Then it was necessary 

 to get news of the Anazeh without exciting the 

 Pasha's suspicions. 



Now Faris when we left him had given us, as a 

 parting gift, a boy who had been in his service, and 

 who he thought would be useful to us as camel- 

 driver, in the place of Nejran ; and tliis boy seemed 

 suited for our purpose. Ghdnim, for such was his 

 name, was a strange wild-looking youth, with a 

 merry smile, white teeth, and a peculiar glitter in 

 his eyes, which were half green, half hazel, like a 

 cat's, while long wisps and plaits of hair hung all 

 about his face in picturesque confusion. There Avas 

 something singularly attractive in his manner ; and 

 his voice had a caressing, supplicating tone, which 

 won our attention at once. He told us he was a 

 Jelaas, one of Ibn Shaalan's people, but that he had 

 left his tribe when very young to take service with 

 Abd-ul-Kerim, as groom or rough-rider, for he was a 

 capital horseman, and had lived with the Shammar 



