] 56 Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, [ch. xxn. 



town — tlie vain, nnstable, interesting creature he had 

 ahvays been — and disappeared at last with his new 

 master. Hanna was made happy with cooking-pots 

 and pans to his heart's content, besides receiving 

 double pay for all the months he had been in our 

 service. He wept copiously for the last few days 

 preceding our departure, and in a perfect torrent of 

 tears when the day itself came. Ferhaii was less 

 demonstrative, yet every bit as sincere. He was the 

 only one of our servants who asked for nothing but 

 his wages, and who took all that was given him over 

 and above, as a gift from heaven. He did not count 

 his money, but affirmed that he would follow us to 

 the world's end, and I believe him. 



]\lohammed, as agreed, recived no pay, but was 

 rewarded with the rifle and Avith sundry small 

 articles he had not the strength of mind to help 

 asking for. To the last he remained the same good 

 humoured intelligent fellow we had always found 

 him, and, now he has become " the Begs brother," 

 I believe he would follow our fortunes to the end 

 of the world. He has promised to go with us 

 next winter to the Jof, where we are to help him 

 in the choice of a new wife from his own people, 

 the Beni Laam, a girl of noble blood, and one worthy 

 to marry a descendant of the prophet Taleb. Abd 

 er Rahman, who though not our servant had served us 

 in divers ways during the last fortnight, received a 

 servant's reward. Money, he had learnt by long 

 experience, was a more substantial blessing than 



