A Pilgrimage to Nejd Volume Ii Part 14

{75} Presents of honour always given to a sheykh.

{107} An incomplete account of this state of things is given in "Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates."

{109} We heard nothing of Mohammed for nearly a year, and then heard that he was in prison. Prompted by a conscientious motive, of which those who have read thus far will need no explanation, he rendered himself liable to the action of Ottoman justice. A man of the Faris faction was found slain at Tudmur, and the relations of the deceased pointed out Mohammed's as the hand which had fired the shot. The Turks had just re-occupied the town and were anxious to make an example, so Mohammed was put in chains and sent to Deyr. There he found means to send us news of his misfortune, and Wilfrid had the satisfaction of being able to fulfil his brotherly obligation by interceding with the Pasha, on his behalf, and eventually by procuring his release.

{119} Just a year afterwards, poor Captain Clements, being in command of the Kalifeh, was attacked off Korna by an Arab ghazu, and while gallantly defending his vessel, was shot through the lungs.

{128} What became of Ariel we shall never know. At first reports came to Bagdad that she was alive and recovering; then news that she was dead; and then, when someone was sent to inquire, it was discovered that Seyd Abbas and Bas.h.a.ga and all the Arabs had deserted and were gone. We hope still she may be with them.

{152} This part of the journal was written at irregular moments when order was not possible. It has been pieced together since.

{154} We trust this duplicity may be pardoned us in consideration of the straits we were in.

{179} Christians of St. John, see "Bedouin Tribes."

{227} Captain Cameron never started at all from Bagdad on the expedition planned between us. Letters received, after we had left, recalled him to India, and he went there by steamer down the Tigris and Persian gulf.

{244} The exact direction of these strings it is difficult to determine accurately; but perhaps E. by S. and W. by N. may be accepted as nearest the truth.

{266} This seems to have been a forgery.