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Title: The book of the long trail
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Newbolt, Henry John, Sir, 1862-1938
Subjects: Explorers
Publisher: New York, London (etc.) : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d dews fell raw and thickas a Scotch mist. The cooking was abominable andthe dignity of Darwaysh-hood did not allow me to sitat meat with infidels or to eat the food which they hadpolluted. So the Pilgrim squatted apart, smokingperpetually with occasional interruptions to say hisprayers and to tell his beads upon the mighty rosary;and he drank the muddy water of the canal out of aleathern bucket, and he munched his bread and garlicwith desperate sanctimoniousness. The ship carried a numerous and motley collectionof passengers, including two English officers of theIndian Army, some Greeks, Italians, French, and Syrians.Burton was both annoyed and pleased when one of theEnglishmen swore at the Darwaysh for touching hiselbow by mistake, little dreaming that he was cursinga brother officer. Dr. Abdullah made two friends on board, HajiWali, of whom we shall hear again, and a rather dis-agreeable rascally Indian shawl merchant called Khuda-bakhsh, with whom he was persuaded to lodge for the
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One of the Englishmen swore at the Darwayah.* 46 THE BOOK OF THE LONG TRAIL first ten days after reaching Cairo. At the end of thistime he decided that he could not put up with the Indianany longer, and that in spite of the crowded state of thetown he must move to a Wakalah or inn. Every roomin the usual native quarter was filled with pilgrims, andBurton had to resign himself to the Jamaliyah or Greekquarter. Here, however, he was fortunate in meetingagain his other fellow passenger Haji Wall. Theybecame great friends, called on each other frequently,dined together, and passed the evening in the mosqueor other public building. They smoked in secret theforbidden weed called Hashish, and held long conver-sations over their pipes. By Haji Walls advice the Darwaysh laid aside hisgown and blue pantaloons and ceased to be a Persian.He became instead a Pathan, born in India of Afghanparents and a wanderer from early youth. He put onthe smooth manners of an Indian physician and thedress of a

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