1 1 6 Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, [ch. xx, 



in his manners to please me, is evidently a man of 

 character. The way he treats and is treated by his> 

 people is quite a different thing from Beteyen's. 

 The Welled Ali are kept by him in capital order,, 

 and no one dares sit down in the sheykh's tenty 

 unless he be of a certain rank. Mohammed Dukhi's 

 peremptory "gum, gum," ("get u^:), get up,") is- 

 heard the moment an unauthorised person takes^ 

 that liberty. With Beteyen, they all do just as 

 they like, and he is too mild and timid to make a 

 remark. 



Beteyen's harem, to which I paid a visit, inter- 

 ested me on account of the history of the principal 

 personage in it. The hatoun Fey d eh was the wife 

 of Suliman ibn Mershid, after Avhose death she 

 married his cousin, Beteyen. She is a daughter of 

 Mohammed el Faris, brother to Sfuk, and uncle to- 

 Ferhan Pasha, Abd ul Kerim and Faris. She 

 seemed dehghted to talk to me about her own 

 people, the Shammar, and spoke of Faris as " a 

 sweet boy." I liked her, but the j^leasure of my 

 Adsit was spoiled by her second child, Hazah, a boy 

 of two, beginning to cry for a coffee cup and refusing 

 to be comforted or silenced. He made such a noise 

 that we could hardly hear ourselves speak. Besides 

 the spoilt baby. Fey deb has a boy of five, named 

 Adudn, a nice little fellow ; both these are Siili- 

 man's children. There were so many tiresome 

 people sitting round in the tent, that even without 

 the noise I could not have got much talk out of 



