This Object, So Thoroughly Disguised By
Rapidity Of Movement, Was El Baggar; Happy, Delighted El Baggar!
As He Came Rapidly Round Towards Us Flourishing His Coorbatch, I
Called To Him, "Is That A Nice Hygeen For The Sit (Lady), El
Baggar?
Is it VERY easy?" He was almost incapable of a reply.
"V-e-r-y e-e-a-a-
S-y," replied the trustworthy authority,
"j-j-j-just the thin-n-n-g for the S-i-i-i-t-t-t." "All right,
that will do," I answered, and the jockey pulled up his steed.
"Are the other camels better or worse than that?" I asked. "Much
worse," replied El Baggar; "the others are rather rough, but this
is an easy-goer, and will suit the lady well."
It was impossible to hire a good hygeen; an Arab prizes his
riding animal too much, and invariably refuses to let it to a
stranger, but generally imposes upon him by substituting some
lightly-built camel, that he thinks will pass muster. I
accordingly chose for my wife a steady-going animal from among
the baggage-camels, trusting to be able to obtain a hygeen from
the great sheik Abou Sinn, who was encamped upon the road we were
about to take along the valley of the Atbara; we arranged to
leave Goorashee on the following day.
Upon arriving at the highest point of the valley, we found
ourselves on the vast table land that stretches from the Atbara
to the Nile.
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