from the Sheykhs, who were his advisers in religious law, a unanimous opinion that a soldier who deserted his post deserved to lose his life. Every one of the Beni Kenaneh chiefs was hanged, and Maqrizy even relates that one of them, who had with him a...

in a panic of terror, and the slave led me off the hig.h road. "\\'here are you takiug me?'' I asked: ''To the desert, was the reply. the Emir ii;; t here". Con,inced that my last hour had come, I ..;,aid ''God help me! l'rmt..i by the Su,,,.y o/ Eon...