It had been intended to march at break of day to Allooli, the source of Wady Goongoonteh; but the absence of several of the camels, which had gone astray during the nocturnal confusion, caused delay in this den2 of iniquity3 until ten o’clock. The altered deportment of the chiefs meanwhile tended materially to banish4 from the mind suspicion of treachery. Heretofore, with the single exception of Mohammad Ali, all had been cold, unfriendly, or insulting; but from the moment of the late catastrophe5 their manner was visibly changed, and the anxiety evinced for the safety of the survivors6 under their charge was unremitting. They formed a circle round the party whensoever seated, and not a single white face was for a moment suffered to wander beyond their sight unattended by a clump7 of spears.
The wound of the unfortunate Portuguese8 had been pronounced mortal, and his dissolution was hourly expected; but life still glimmering9 in the socket10, he lingered on with fearful groans11, although speechless, and too nearly insensible to be aware of what had passed. Placed upon a litter, arranged as comfortably as circumstances would permit, the attempt was made to convey him to the next ground, but the rough motion of the camel doubtless hastened the termination of his sufferings; and the wretched man breathing his last ere he had journeyed many miles from the scene of his misfortunes, was interred12 under a date tree by the road-side, in a grave ready prepared for his reception.
The last rains having washed away an artificial bank of stones which had formerly13 facilitated the ascent14 of the difficult and dangerous passage leading from Goongoonteh into the Wady Kélloo—as the upper course is denominated—a delay of two hours was at first starting experienced in the bed of the torrent15, during which all were on the alert. Two huge pointed16 rocks abutting17 on opposite angles of the acute zig-zag, reduced it to a traversed waist, so narrow, that room for the load to pass was only afforded when the long-legged dromedary swung its unwieldy carcass alternately from side to side—the steepness of the acclivity rendering18 it very frequently necessary to perform this inconvenient19 evolution upon the knees. Many became jammed, and were unladen before they could regain20 an erect21 position; whilst others were, with infinite difficulty, by the united efforts of a dozen drivers, who manned the legs and tail, saved from being launched with their burthens over the steep side of the descent, which consisted of a treacherous22 pile of loose rubbish.
To the surprise of every spectator the train passed through the defile23 without any material accident, and thence proceeded to pick their steps among the rocks, pools, and fissures24, which abound25 in every mountain torrent whose course is short and precipitous. Flanked by perpendicular26 sheets of basalt and porphyry, of unwholesome sulphury appearance, beneath which many deep pools of cool water had collected, the tortuous27 road was at intervals28 enlivened by clumps29 of the doom30 palm, environed by patches of refreshing31 green turf—sights from which the eye had long been estranged32. Nine miles of gradual ascent brought the caravan33 safely to the encamping ground at the head of the stream—a swamp surrounded by waving palms and verdant34 rushes, occupying high table-land, and affording abundance of green forage35 to the famished36 cattle. Most fortunately the sky had proved cloudy, or the march, performed during the hottest hours of the day, would indeed have been terrific.
Hence to Sagállo, the dismal37 country is in the exclusive occupation of a wandering race of the Danákil, who, notwithstanding that the Sultán of Tajúra claims the sovereignty of the entire waste, only acknowledge his impotent authority during their occasional temporary sojourn38 among the huts of that sea-port. The guides asserted, with many imprecations, that from time immemorial few káfilahs had ever halted at Allooli without losing one or more of its members by the Adrúsi creeses, or by those of the Eesah; and on the bank opposite to the shady clump of doom palms, under whose canopy39 the residue40 of the day was passed, numerous cairns, consisting of circular piles of stone, similar to those left at Goongoonteh to commemorate41 the outrage42 of the preceding night, stood memorials of the dark deeds that had been perpetrated.
During about three years the road from Abyssinia to the sea-coast was completely closed by hordes43 of these ruffian outcasts, who continued their murderous depredations45 on every passer-by, until Lohe?ta, the present Akil of the Débeni, a young, daring, and warlike chieftain, succeeding to the rule on the demise46 of his father, routed the banditti after a severe struggle, and re-opened the route. The Wady Kélloo is, however, still permanently47 infested48 by parties of wild Bedouins, who skulk49 about the rocky passes: lie in wait for stragglers from the caravan: assassinate50 all who fall into their ruthless clutches: and, when time permits, further gratify their savage51 propensities52, by mangling53 and mutilating the corpse54.
“See how the cowardly scoundrels marked me,” exclaimed the fiery55 old warrior56 Ibrahim Shehém Abli, drawing aside his checked kilt, and displaying sundry57 frightful58 seams, which had doubtless been the work of a sharp knife. “Behold these tokens of Eesah steel upon my thigh59; I received them in this wild wady; but, by Allah, I had a life for every one of them. We have a blood feud60 now, and it behoves all who are not weary of the world, to look well to their own throats.”
Lurking61 bandits excepted, who prowl about like the midnight wolf, the Ada?el tribes, although sufficiently62 barbarous and quarrelsome by nature, are fortunately in a great measure restrained from deeds of ferocity by the certain consequences of spilling blood. None are anxious to involve their family or tribe in a mortal feud, nor would any warrior, incurring63 the almost inevitable64 consequences of a two-fold retribution, find support from his clansmen, unless sufficient cause could be shown; and thus, even in the most lawless states of society, are checks imposed by absolute necessity, which prove almost as powerful as the more civilised legal restraint upon the human passions.
Although Allooli was represented to be even more perilous65 than Goongoonteh, it possessed66, in point of locality, immense superiority; and every advantage that could be devised, was taken of its capabilities67 for defence. The baggage, formed in a compact circle on an open naked plain, was surrounded by a line of camels, and the mules68 and horses were placed in the centre next to the beds of the party. Guards and sentinels patrolled under an officer of the watch; and at the solicitation69 of the Ras el Káfilah, who was exceedingly anxious to avoid the inconvenient consequences of a blood feud, a musket70 was discharged every hour at the relief of sentries71, in order to intimate to the evil-minded that all within the breastwork were not asleep.
Notwithstanding the presence, in the immediate72 neighbourhood, for several days previously73, of a large band of Eesah, the hot night passed without any alarm. The non-arrival, until long after daybreak, of the camels lost at Goongoonteh, added to the length of the next march, obliging the abandonment of the intention entertained, to speed beyond the pale of this site of assassination74, the party halted on the 10th. Allooli stands two hundred and twenty-eight feet above the sea, and although intensely hot, and its waters saline, it proved a paradise when compared with every preceding station. Here animal life was once more abundant. A horde44 of pastoral savages75, who from time to time appeared on the adjacent heights, were made acquainted with the effect of rifle bullets, by the slaughter76 from the tent door of sundry gazelles that visited the swamp; and the venison afforded a most seasonable accession to the empty larder77, which was further replenished78 from the trees overhead, whose fan-like leaves gave shelter to a beautiful variety of the wood pigeon.
Shortly after midnight the march was resumed by the moon’s light over a succession of small barren terraces, confined by conical and rounded hills. In the lone79 valley of Henráddee Dowár, which opens into the wide level plain of Gurgúddee, there stood by the wayside a vast pile of loose stones, half concealed80 among the tall jaundice-looking flowers of the senna plant. Towards this spot ensued a general race on the part of escort and camel-drivers, who each added a pebble81 whilst repeating the Arabic auguration, “Nauzu billahi mina Shaytani r rajím.”—“Let us flee for refuge to God from Satan the stoned.” A tragic82 legend was attached to the cairn, which, from the dimensions attained83, must have dated from a remote epoch84. A hoary85 old man, accused in days long gone of incestuous intercourse86 with his own daughter, was arraigned87 before a tribunal of his assembled tribe, and, being fully88 convicted, was on this spot stoned to death, together with his fair partner in guilt89. Throughout Syria and Palestine it is to this day the practice of all who pass the mounds90 raised over those who die in crime, and whose memory it is intended to dishonour91, thus to contribute a stone, as well with a view to perpetuate92 the monument, as to shield themselves from evil by manifesting the detestation entertained of the infamy93 commemorated94.
Gurgúddee, eight miles in length, and stretching on either hand to the far horizon, is bounded by steep mountain ranges, whence an alluvial95 deposit washed down by the rains, presented over the whole of the level plain a surface of cracked and hardened mud, like that of a recently-dried morass96. From the southern side, where the clayey tract97 is thickly clothed with stunted98 tamarisk and spartium, a road strikes up the valley in a north-westerly direction to the Muda?to town of Aussa, distant some three days’ journey for a caravan. As the day dawned, the steeple necks of a troop of ostriches99 were perceived nodding in the landscape, as the gigantic birds kicked the dust behind their heavy heels; and a herd100 of graceful101 gazelles were seen scouring102 towards a belt of stony103 hillocks which skirted the dry pebbly104 bed of a river, that expends105 its waters on the sun-dried plain. Ascending106 this stream, in which were a few stagnant107 pools of bitter unpalatable water, a human figure was detected skulking108 behind some thick green tamarisks by which they were overshadowed. But on being perseveringly109 hunted down by Mohammad Ali and his wild myrmidons, the prisoner proved to be a Débeni in quest of truant110 camels—his attempt at concealment111 having, according to his own account, arisen from the appearance of so many mounted cavaliers, whom he had mistaken for a foraging112 party of the Eesah, and was naturally desirous of eluding113.
The caravan halted early at Bedi Kurroof, after a march of sixteen miles, and the camp was formed on a stony eminence114 of basalt and lava115, affording neither tree nor shade. A day of fierce heat succeeded. There was no forage for the cattle; the water was of the most brackish116 description; and the spot being of old infested by Bedouins, the party passed a restless and watchful117 night.
A legend of blood too was attached to this wild bivouac, as to most others on the road, and thus it was related. One of the young men of a Danákil caravan returning from Abyssinia, fatigued118 by the hot journey, lay down to rest his weary limbs beneath the shadow of a rock, near which the tent of the Embassy now stood. It was yet broad daylight, but a band of lurking Eesah presently pounced120 upon the wayfarer121, like the eagle on its prey122, and, ere he could resume his weapons, had stabbed him to the heart. The dying groans of the murdered man being heard by his comrades, a number of warriors123 started in hot pursuit of the flying assassins, and after a severe chase, succeeded in capturing the whole gang. Two were immediately speared to death upon the principle of two drops of blood for one; and the remaining miscreants124, four in number, having been stripped of their clothes and arms, were kicked forth125 out of the place.
“The Eesah of these lulls,” continued the narrator of this tale, as, by the light of the blazing watch-fire, he fashioned a rude wooden bolster126 for the preservation127 of his greasy128 peruke during approaching slumbers129, “are perfect Shaytans. Outcasts from their tribe, bands of ten or more here wander up and down like wild beasts, cutting the throats of all they meet, whether infidels or true believers—not for the sake of gain or plunder130, but purely131 to gratify an innate132 propensity133 to murder. The monsters train for these blood forays upon raw flesh and marrow134, and, well anointed with sheep’s-tail fat, can travel day and night, during the hottest season, without suffering from fatigue119. Allahu akbar! but they are devils incarnate135!”
“Who has seen the Eesah, who has heard the Eesah?” wildly challenged Mohammad ibn Izhák, starting upon his feet, and clashing his now finished bolster against his buckler, as he concluded this harangue136. “Who has seen the Eesah, who has heard the Eesah?” shouted a dozen voices in various quarters of the extended camp. “Uncover your shields, uncover your shields! Count well their spears, that not a man of them escape!”
“We have not seen them, we have not heard them,” responded the patroles on duty. “No Eesah are here. Sleep on in peace!”
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demise
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skulk
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