--The Pasha compliments the English.
Traveller (rising).--Well, I've had enough of this. Tell the Pasha
I am greatly obliged to him for his hospitality, and still more for
his kindness in furnishing me with horses, and say that now I must
be off.
Pasha (after hearing the dragoman, and standing up on his divan).
{3}--Proud are the sires, and blessed are the dams of the horses
that shall carry his Excellency to the end of his prosperous
journey. May the saddle beneath him glide down to the gates of the
happy city, like a boat swimming on the third river of Paradise.
May he sleep the sleep of a child, when his friends are around him;
and the while that his enemies are abroad, may his eyes flame red
through the darkness--more red than the eyes of ten tigers!
Farewell!
Dragoman.--The Pasha wishes your Excellency a pleasant journey.
So ends the visit.
CHAPTER II--TURKISH TRAVELLING
In two or three hours our party was ready; the servants, the Tatar,
the mounted Suridgees, and the baggage-horses, altogether made up a
strong cavalcade. The accomplished Mysseri, of whom you have heard
me speak so often, and who served me so faithfully throughout my
Oriental journeys, acted as our interpreter, and was, in fact, the
brain of our corps.
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