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is tribe, or very nearly, whose wife was so old that Owen's presence afforded him no cause for jealousy, a friend of the hunter who owned the eagles,

explained that he had not told him before that his friend Tahar, he who owned the eagles, had gone away to live in another oasis, because it had not occurre

dragoman, who happened to be present. "A-

last three weeks, the rain and wind which had made travelling in the desert impossible, and when Owen spoke of startin

i j'ava

le weather they had experienced, and how g

le de regrets, mats pour rien au monde vo

-well, the vultures might have been tearing him if he had persevered, so instead of going off in one of his squibby little rages, which would have made him ridicu

ut the dragoman's opinion was that the old hunter was not very sure; Tahar would be found there, a

all over the Sahara

ld like to re

to reach Ain Mahdy, trying to believe he had grown interested in the Arab, and would like to see him living under the rule of his own chief, even though the chief was, to a certain extent, responsible to the French Government; still, to all intents and purposes he would

The Arab court-house seemed to him an excellent place for a lesson in the language; and the case the Kaid was deciding was to his taste. A man was suing for divorce, and for reasons which would have astonished Englishmen, and cause the plaintiff to be hurled out of civilised society; but in the Sahara the case did not strike anybody as unnatural; and Owen

s living flesh, which in a few hours he would be eating; it would have been impolite to the Kaid to refuse to feel the sheep's ribs, so Owen complied, though he knew that doing so would prevent him from enjoying his din

n repeated. "Good God!

ere three

f he had only told him in the beginni

us vous en

n you! There is nothing to

ot be able to start to-morrow;

these torrential rains only happened once every three or four years in the Sahara. He was too annoyed to answer his dragoman.... Enfin, Tahar had left his eagles at Ain Mahdy, and Owen fed them morning and evening, gorging them with f

not be able to hu

d the universe, Allah

nd the p

n be excited by a drug, and

there be sand storms or rain stor

ed Owen's mistake i

mountains after the rains; we sha

e rode up to Owen a

see yellow, spotted with black; something was moving

arth itself breathed nothing but musk, and Owen's surprise increased when he saw the Arabs collecting the droppings, and on asking what use could be made of thes

ort while afterwards one of the Arabs cried, "Grouse! Grouse!" a

cross a plain, flat and empty, through which the river's banks wound like a green ribbon.... Some stunted vegetation rose in sight about midday, and Owen thought that they were near the oasis towards which they were journeying; but on approaching he saw that what he had mistaken for an oasis was but the ruins of one that had perished last year owing to a great drought, only