92 Bedouin Tribes of the Eiiphratcs. [<'h. xix. 



telligence in Arabs over Europeans, that tlie former 

 at once understand tlie merest indication of a sketch 

 or map, which woukl be meaningless to the un- 

 educated among \\\(t latter. 



I found that Turkya's child, a daughter nearly 

 four years old, was by a former marriage ; her first 

 husband, a brother of her father's, died mad about 

 three years ago. It seems that she was so much at- 

 tached to him that she even now laments his death, 

 and that she always disliked her second marriage, 

 and seized the first pretext for escaping from it. 

 She now says she cannot go back to Sotamm-ibn- 

 Shaalan, and wants to remain with her own family. 

 Jedaan has another daughter, still prettier than 

 Turkya, a lovely little girl of eleven, named Ariffa. 

 We saw her yesterday, when Faris - ibn - Meziad, 

 Sheykh of the Hesenneh, who is here on a visit, 

 brought her to our tent to '\fLirvaj'' ("gaze") at us. 



The half-witted Turki sat silent all the while I 

 was drawino- but when I had finished and was 

 o-oino; away, he broudit out three or four revolvers 

 of English and American make to show me. He 

 seemed to have a particular fancy for handling 

 these firearms, pointing them recklessly all round, 

 to the terror of men, women, and children in the 

 tent, until the secretary took them away from him. 

 He then made me a little set speech, from which 

 it appeared that he was not such a fool after all, 

 for he had evidently shown me these revolvers only 

 in order to lead up to the request that I would give 



