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To this magnetising mood the sole exception is when a Badawi of

superior accomplishments, who sometimes says his prayers,

ejaculates a startling "Astagh-faru'llah"-I pray Allah's

pardon!-for listening, not to Carlyle's "downright lies," but to

light mention of the sex whose name is never heard amongst the

nobility of the Desert.

Nor was it only in Arabia that the immortal Nights did me such

notable service: I found the wildlings of Somali land equally

amenable to its discipline; no one was deaf to the charm and the

two women cooks of my caravan, on its way to Harar, were in

continently dubbed by my men "Shahrazad" and "Dinazad."