Aylia was the comeliest1 of the dark-eyed daughters of the desert. Sixteen tropical summers had already ripened2 a form modelled in that exquisite3 perfection which nature is wont4 to bestow5 upon her wildest works, and the native symmetry of the sylph-like maid was yet unblemished by any of those barbarous improvements wherein her nation delight. Her sparkling eye, fringed with long silken lashes6, in brilliancy eclipsed the pet gazelle that ever bounded by her side; and the graceful7 gambols8 of the sportive fawn9 would seem to have been inspired by the fairy footstep of its blooming mistress. Luxuriant hair fell in elf-like tresses over her ebon shoulder. Teeth of ivory whiteness were revealed by a radiant smile that ever played over her animated10 features; and few indeed of her virgin12 charms were veiled under the folds of the slender drapery that belongs to the Bedouin shepherdess.
(Note 1. The following narrative13, recounted by one of the Wóema escort, although necessarily enlarged, is as strictly14 literal as the embodiment of the subject would admit; and it will convey to the English reader a better picture of life in the desert than could be painted in a less connected form.)
The maid tended her father’s flocks in the vale of Errur, which forms a constant scene of predatory incursion on the part of the ruthless savages15 that hover17 round the border. When least expected, the Galla war-hawks of the adjacent mountains were wont to stoop from their rocky fastnesses, and to sweep away the riches of the Wóema. The treacherous18 Eesah, although ready to extend the hand which should have denoted friendship, was nothing loath19 to the appropriation20 of other men’s chattels21; and throughout all the nomade Adel hordes22, whose tents were erected23 during the more sultry months, the feud24 and the desultory25 skirmish favoured the inroads of the foe26. Amongst the surrounding clans27, even her own tribe was not notorious for its honesty, and by frequent depredations28 abroad, it invited the foray of reprisal29. Thus the brawl30 and the mortal encounter would follow the stillness of indolent existence with a rapidity not less startling than frequent, and none knew what the next hour might bring forth31.
But fear had no place in the breast of the daughter of old Ali. Nursed in the lap of strife32, the Bedouin blood of her roving sire coursed through her young veins33, and she pursued her Arcadian occupation beneath the spreading boughs34 of the venerable acacia, chanting to her gazelle the wild ditty that revealed the thraldom35 of her heart, or listening to the bleat36 of her black-faced lambs from the Hejáz. Often had the shrill37 war-whoop rung through the wild valley, and the rush of the gathering38 warriors40 who flew to answer the summons, arrested her plaintive41 song, but only lately had it caused her to spring to her feet with a bosom42 throbbing43 audibly; and now she would sigh as she sank again upon the smooth bank that formed her favourite seat, for the swain for whom her soft eyes had been strained across the flickering44 desert was not among the number of those that had swept past, and she knew not why, nor whither he had gone.
Many were the ardent45 suitors who had wooed the hand of the blooming Aylia, and often-times had she been sought from her avaricious46 father, who viewed the still expanding attractions of his daughter as a certain source of increase to his ill-gotten and idolised wealth. None, however, had yet been able to produce the price set upon the damsel’s charms, neither had any possessed47 an advocate in her eloquence48. Her heart had already been tacitly relinquished49, but her hand she knew to be in the gift of her sire, and therefore not her own to bestow.
Ambeesa it was who had silently gained this ascendancy50 over the green affections of the maid. The milch goats of Irripa, his mother, were by her driven daily to pasture, and his wigwam was within spear’s throw of her own. The twain had known each other from earliest infancy51, for they came upon the world’s stage in the self-same hour. They had feasted and they had played together as children; and now that their young hearts had become entwined, it was his wont to accompany the nymph into the vale, where they would hold converse52 the livelong day. The vapid53 language of the savage16 admits of but a limited embodiment of the softer passions; but the simple courtship of the uncultivated was ably sustained. Aylia felt the force of her charms when she saw the warrior39 grasp the spear and the shield, without which no Bedouin ever crosses the threshold of his cabin—in order that he might chase the fawn that she had coveted54; or when he drew water from the well in her gourd55, to replenish56 again and again the ox-hide that formed a drinking trough for her thirsty flock. And Ambeesa felt himself amply rewarded when the slender fingers of the blooming girl decked his hair with the aromatic57 herbs that she had plucked in the wild meadow, or she counted over the ewes that they were shortly to possess in common.
Ambeesa was ever in the foremost rank when the spear was thrown over the shoulder of the brave; and successful in every foray, he had won wealth as well as fame. None appeared more frequently in the many-tailed leopard58 spoils which form the garb59 of victory; and the white feather always floated above his raven60 locks. But his father having been treacherously61 murdered by the Eesah, a blood feud clung to the old man’s sole descendant; and it formed to him a source of self-reproach, that although he had for years dogged the footsteps of the assassin, the opportunity had never yet occurred when he might wash out the stain! A skulker62 amongst his clansmen at a distant oasis63, the cowardly savage had profited of his deep cunning to baffle the creese of the avenger64; and he still vaunted his trophy65 of blood without any account of its acquisition having been required.
But the day of reckoning and of retribution was now nigh at hand. The mother of Ambeesa had counted out the dowry demanded of any who should espouse66 young Aylia, and had claimed the girl as her daughter-in-law elect. At the sight of the beeves and the fat rams67 and the trinkets and the trumpery68 cloths, the sole remaining eye of the old sheikh glistened69 with a lustre70 that it had not known for years; but his haughty71 soul could ill brook72 the thought of his daughter being wedded73 to one whose father’s death thus rested unavenged. “Get thee hence, young man,” he exclaimed sternly, shaking his silvered locks, after a short inward conflict with his avarice—“Get thee hence, nor show thy face again within my doors as a suitor until thou hast appeased74 the spirit of thy murdered sire. The blood of him to whom thou art indebted for existence crieth aloud to thee for vengeance75; and Wulláhi, until the grave of Hássan shall have been soaked by thy hands, thou shalt not talk to Ali of his daughter.”
Ambeesa sought not his dark mistress, but snatching the spear and buckler which had been carefully deposited in a corner of the cabin, stalked forth without uttering a syllable77. Passing his own hut in mental abstraction, he took the road to the brook, and throwing himself upon his face, drew a deep draught78 to allay79 the fever that consumed him. Then whetting80 his brass81-mounted creese to the keenest edge upon a smooth stone, he muttered a dread82 oath betwixt his clenched83 teeth, and strode moodily84 across the sandy plain.
The great annual fair had already assembled at the sea-port of Berbera, and tribes from all parts of the country were flocking thither85 with their motley wares86. The curious stalls of the fat Banians from India were thronged87 from morning until night with barbarians88 from the adjacent districts, who brought peltries and drags to be exchanged; and the clamour of haggling89 and barter90 was hourly increased by the arrival of some new caravan91 of toil-worn pedlars from the more remote depths of the interior, each laden92 with an accession of rich merchandise to be converted into baubles93 and blue calico at a clear net profit to the specious94 Hindoo of two hundred per cent. Myrrh, ivory, and gum-arabic; civet, frankincense, and ostrich95 feathers, were piled in every corner of his booth; and the tearing of ells of Nile stuff and Surat cloth, and the counting out of porcelain96 beads97, was incessant98 so long as the daylight lasted. Withered99 beldames, with cracked penny-trumpet voices, were meanwhile actively100 employed in the erection of new edifices101; and more and more camels were ever pouring towards the scene of primitive102 commerce, loaded with the long elastic103 ribs104, and the coarse date matting which form the skeleton and shell of the nomade’s wigwam.
It was dusk when Ambeesa entered the long centre street of this busy scene. He had journeyed many days alone and on foot, and his mantle105 and his arms and his lofty brow were alike deeply stained with the disguising dust of the desert. A gang of Bones, with a stalking ostrich, driving before them sundry106 asses107 laden with the spoils of the chase, arrived at the same moment from the opposite direction. Rude parchment-covered quivers, well stocked with poisoned shafts108, hung negligently109 by their side, suspended by the tufted tail of a lion, and with their classic bows over their wiry shoulders, the gypsey votaries110 of Diana advanced swearing and blaspheming towards the Eesah quarter of the straggling encampment.
The light which gleamed through the black goat-hair awning111 of a Guráguê slave-merchant, fell upon the features of the wild party as it passed; and Ambeesa’s heart beat high with exultation112 when, in the person of one whose matted locks were decorated with a dirty ostrich plume113, he fancied he could recognise the very foe of whom he was in search. The archer114 was in truth a most truculent-looking knave—one who, if his visage did not strangely belie115 him, might have been the perpetrator of any given atrocity116. The tail fat of four Bérbera rams encrusted his head in a perfect helmet of tallow, and the putrid117 entrails of the antelope118 he had last slain119, were slung120 in noisome121 coils about his neck, to the pollution of the atmosphere he breathed. His repulsive122 front displayed through the accumulated filth123 of forty years a perfect maze124 of mystic figures in tattooed125 relief, on which were imbedded amulets126 stitched in greasy127 leather; and the distended128 lobes129 of his enormous ears were so loaded with pewter rings, that not another could have been squeezed in. A gap, consequent upon the loss of five front teeth in a recent brawl, made room for a quid of no ordinary dimensions. Two small sunken blear eyes, which appeared to work upon a swivel, squinted130 alternately, as the inflamed131 balls were revealed by turns according to the employment of the wearer’s sinister132 vision; and on his meagre sunken cheek yawned a seam five inches in length, which precisely133 corresponded with a gash134 known to have been inflicted135 by the youth’s father during a certain moonless night at Errur, when a stab in the back had aroused the veteran from deep sleep to his mortal struggle.
“Stay you here, Moosa,” quoth one of the bowmen, addressing this captivating hero, as they stopped before the doorway136 of an unfinished cabin at no great distance beyond the rover’s pall,—“tarry you here, and Inshállah, we’ll turn out these lazy wenches to unload the asses.”
The name had not been lost upon Ambeesa, who, like all of his bigot creed137, placed the firmest reliance in fate. He had sworn never to return until he should have given the body of Moosa to the wild beasts, where the vultures might pick out his eyes. The object of his weary journey was by the interference of destiny in his favour, already within his clutches. He who murdered his sire was assuredly alone with him in a dark lane, and Aylia was without doubt his own!
“Wogérri maani, wogérri maani, wogérri maani” repeated the Wóema coldly, as he extended his open hand towards the doomed138 victim in token of amity139. “Wogérri, wogérri, wogérri,” carelessly returned the savage thus accosted140, at the same time passing his greasy fingers mechanically over the palm presented. The same triple salutation again reiterated141, was thrice returned; and it gradually dwindled142 away to an assenting143 “um hum,” in itself fully76 as frigid144 as the wearisome repetitions of inquiry145 had been deeply treacherous.
Moosa stooped to shake the pebbles146 from his dilapidated sandal. His bare back was towards the Wóema, for his garment had fallen from his brawny147 shoulder. It was enough. Muttering through his closed teeth an inaudible invocation to Allah, Ambeesa suddenly drew his creese, plunged148 the razor-edged blade to the very hilt into the yielding spine149 of his unsuspecting foe, tore the vaunting white feather from his greasy locks, spumed the prostrate150 carcase with his foot, spat151 upon the unseemly features now distorted in the agonies of death, and fled into the wilderness152.
Months had elapsed, and the festive153 season had now returned at which the Bedouins annually154 celebrate their weddings. Many a dark-eyed damsel had been led by her happy swain to the nuptial155 wigwam, when a gayer procession than usual was to be seen passing up the centre street of the encampment at Ga?el. Eight wrinkled matrons led, brandishing156 swords and creeses with truly Amazonian gestures, whilst they danced to a wild song in which all joined chorus to the dissonant157 thumping158 of a kettle-drum. The charms of the maiden159 bride who followed, and had been long betrothed160, were screened from vulgar gaze beneath a canopy161 of blue calico, home by a party of the village belles162, splendid with porcelain jewellery and grease—their arms, like those of the sister Graces, entwining each other’s waists; whilst every idle blackguard that could be mustered163, swelled164 the nuptial train. At intervals165, the music of the tambourine166 gave place to a shrill vocal167 solo, when the nymphs pirouetted in a mazy circle; and the procession, after thus parading through the hamlet, was preceded on its return by a party of dirty urchins168 bearing the dower in ornamented169 baskets woven of the wiry leaf of the palm. Massive ear-rings of brass and copper170 were amongst the treasures, and the much-prized, though far from becoming coif of blue calico which forms the badge of the wedded wife, had not been forgotten.
Aylia was still the fairest of all the daughters of her tribe, and Ambeesa ever the foremost when the spear was thrown over the shoulder of the warrior. Happiness and content reigned171 in the rude hut. No harsh word had ruffled172 the existence of the young pair, and the stranger never passed the door without the ready draught of milk being proffered173, or the kind word exchanged. But in accordance with the barbarous usage of the Adel Bedouin, the wife was to remain an inmate174 of her father’s dwelling175, until she should have become the mother of three children.
’Twas mid-day in the sultry summer months, and the fiery176 sun poured his fiercest rays from his meridian177 throne. No human eye was able to endure the broad glare that pervaded178 the vast sandy plain of Errur, which at intervals was scoured179 by towering whirlwinds, imparting the aspect of a manufacturing town with its huge steam-engines at work. All animate11 nature shrank under the scorching180 heat, which had even curled the few scanty181 tufts of withered vegetation. The stillness of death pervaded a desolate182 scene over which floated the treacherous mirage183. Not a creature moved, and no sound was heard save the roar of the angry whirlwind tearing every thing before it, as it swept in reckless wrath184 across the encampment, eliciting185 while it raged among the frail186 mat tenements187 of the location—unroofing some and filling others with dust and pebbles—a curse from the drowsy188 savage whose rest it had disturbed.
Suddenly a shrill cry arose in the distance, the well-known tocsin for the assembly of the men-at-arms. Electrical in its effect, every slumberer189 started to his feet, and each hut, which had for hours been silent as the tomb, poured forth its warrior, armed and ready for the fight. On the verge190 of the plain was descried191 a band of the Alla Galla driving off a troop of camels, and with the points of their spears goading192 the awkward animals to a grotesque193 gallop194. Their remoteness, and the unnatural195 speed to which they had been urged, imparted, through the medium of the mirage, the appearance of dismembered animals flying in portions through the deceptive196 atmosphere. Now a head attached to a long neck was separated from the body, and elevated many feet above its proper place; and now animated legs of exaggerated length could alone be perceived flitting fast over the sultry desert. Unattached tails danced in the quivering vapour, and the entire distance was alive with fragments of men and dromedaries, which seemed to have been hurled197 through the air by the bursting of an exploded mine.
Galla and Wóema, pursuer and pursued, scoured for some hours over the sandy waste; and it was near sunset when the pagan marauders were overtaken on the confines of their own territories. A sharp conflict ensued; and two on each side having fallen, the booty was retaken, and the unbelievers put to flight by the sons of the Faithful.
From the door of her father’s wigwam Aylia watched with inward misgivings198 the return of the victors; and as she saw the bodies of the fallen borne upon the shoulders of their comrades, her young heart throbbed199 audibly, for her newly-wedded husband was one of those who had gone forth. As her straining gaze fell upon the still gory200 corse of him she loved, a flood of hot tears dimmed her lustrous201 eyes, and uttering a piercing shriek202, she sank senseless at the threshold. Roused again to life, the bereaved203 girl filled the hut with her doleful cries, and shriek succeeded shriek as she bewailed her fallen condition. Death would indeed have been almost preferable to the lot accorded by her destiny. The property brought at his marriage by the deceased was resumed by his grasping relatives, and the late light-hearted wife became once again a slave under the roof of her avaricious parent, there to lead a life of drudgery204 until another wealthy suitor should pay the dower fixed205 upon her charms. But the light elastic step was gone, by which Aylia had erst been distinguished206 above all the Wóema maidens207. The full black orbs208 had lost their wonted lustre, and the radiant smile no longer beamed over her faded features. The orphan209 pledge of her first love clung to a widowed breast, and the heart that beat beneath was broken by the untimely fate of the brave youth Ambeesa.
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slain
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pebbles
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