Ibrahim, soldier | 3 | | | | | | 1 Shukri Aga (absent), captain }| | | | | | | His children-- }| | | | | | | Achmed, his son, 13 years }| 15 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 24 Juma “ 12 “ }| | | | | | | Adam “ 14 “ }| | | | | | | Matyera, interpreter | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | | | 7 +------+------+---------+-----+------+--------+------ | 397 | 82 | 69 |126 | 182 | 36 | 551[11] ------------------------------------+------+------+---------+-----+------+--------+-------- The Pasha translated, and the Arabs bowed their assent, and through the Vakeel and two captains, vowed that they would obey their father religiously. “Good,” I replied; “and now that I assume command, I want to have a list of your names and exact number of your families, and carriers will be allotted to you according to your number, and on the fifth day we leave.” Poor Pasha! It was as clear as the noonday sun why 10,000 followers had dwindled in number to Bilal, the solitary ONE! After a patient and scrupulous analysis of the why and wherefore of these events, the result is manifest, and we see the utter unfitness of the scientific student and the man of unsuspecting heart to oppose these fawning, crafty rogues, who have made fraud and perfidy their profession. At the same time, it is not so clear that, had he penetrated their dissimulating wiles, and grappled with these evil men boldly, and crushed the heads of these veterans in falsehood and craft, that his position would have been safer than it was. Each man, however, follows his own nature, and must abide the consequences of his judgment and acts. But all must admit, that what is so far written does infinite credit to his heart. _April 6th._--Sixty-five natives have arrived here, sent by the chief Mazamboni as carriers, to be ready for the 10th instant. Osman Latif Effendi, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, was once much addicted to inebriety, but of late years he has become a rigid abstainer, and such an absorbed reader of the Koran that not long ago his clothes were aflame before he was aware of it. [Sidenote: 1889. April 6. Kavalli’s.]