The Ladies Being Thus
Left To Themselves, Had No Impediment To The Satisfying Of Their
Curiosity, Which Was Very Great At Seeing A Townsman, And What Was Still
More Extraordinary, A Man Of Damascus (For So I Was Called), Under Their
Tents.
They crowded about me, and were incessant in their inquiries
respecting my affairs, the goods I had to sell,
The dress of the town
ladies, &c. &c. When they found that I had nothing to sell, nor any
thing to present to them, they soon retired; they however informed me
that my guide had no other camels in his possession than the one we had
brought with us, which was already lame. He soon afterwards arrived, and
when I began to expostulate with him on his
[p.412] conduct, he assured me that his camel would be able to carry us
all the way to Egypt, but begged me to wait a few days longer, until he
should be well enough to walk by its side; for, since we left Beszeyra
he had been constantly complaining of rheumatic pains in his legs. I saw
that all this was done to gain time, and to put me out of patience, in
order to cheat me of the wages he had already received; but, as we were
to proceed on the following day to another encampment at a few hours
distance, I did not choose to say any thing more to him on the subject
in a place where I had nobody but women to take my part; hoping to be
able to attack him more effectually in the presence of his own
tribe’smen.
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