90 Bedouin Tribes of the EtLphrates. [en. xix, 



resistance to tlie soldiers ; and allowed themselves to 

 be pillaged. The troops sacked all the Moayaja 

 camp, captured fifty mares, and drove off a hundred 

 and eighty camels, besides three thousand sheep. 

 Since then a war of reprisals has been carried on, 

 but Jedaan assures us that not more than fifty men 

 have been killed on either side. 



Jedilan's face improves when he is excited, for 

 then his eyes, which are really fine, light up sur- 

 prisingly. I proposed to take his portrait, and he 

 was much flattered at the idea, and sat with extra- 

 ordinary patience for nearly an hour, and then 

 called for his secretary, who wrote Jedaan's name 

 for us underneath the drawing, adding " Emir el 

 Arab,^' his new title in the desert, with which he is 

 as pleased as people are with theirs in England. 

 The portrait hardly did him justice, for it gave the 

 ruggedness of his features, without their occasional 

 fire. I was more successful in a sketch I made of 

 his daughter Turkya, a pretty and interesting 

 woman, whom I presently afterwards made acquaint- 

 ance with. 



As soon as Jedaan went away, I paid a visit to 

 the harem, and found there in the place of honour 

 Jedaan's first wife, Hazznn, the mother of his three 

 children. The new wife has a tent of her own. 

 Hazzna was very gracious, doing the honours of 

 her household, and of course making me sit in 

 her place. She has greater remains of good looks 

 than is usual in a Bedouin mother of grown-up 



