And Now My Sultan Has Seen The House Of The Bark, And I
Will Show Him Nothing More This Day; For To-Day Is Youm Al Jumal
(Friday), And The Gates Will Be Presently Shut Whilst The Moslems
Perform Their Devotions.
So I will accompany my sultan to the
guest house, and there I will leave him for the present."
We accordingly passed through a gate, and ascending a street found
ourselves before the mosque where I had stood in the morning; in
another minute or two we were at the door of Joanna Correa. I now
offered my kind guide a piece of silver as a remuneration for his
trouble, whereupon he drew himself up and said:-
"The silver of my sultan I will not take, for I consider that I
have done nothing to deserve it. We have not yet visited all the
wonderful things of this blessed town. On a future day I will
conduct my sultan to the castle of the governor, and to other
places which my sultan will be glad to see; and when we have seen
all we can, and my sultan is content with me, if at any time he see
me in the soc of a morning, with my basket in my hand, and he see
nothing in that basket, then is my sultan at liberty as a friend to
put grapes in my basket, or bread in my basket, or fish or meat in
my basket. That will I not refuse of my sultan, when I shall have
done more for him than I have now.
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