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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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of an Indian physician and thedress of a gentleman while still representing himselfas a Darwaysh. What business, asked the Haji, have those reverend men with politics or statistics orany of the information which you are collecting ? Callyourself a religious wanderer if you like, and let thosewho ask the object of your peregrinations know thatyou are under a vow to visit all the holy places of Al-Islara. Thus you will persuade them that you are aman of rank under a cloud, and you will receive muchmore civility than perhaps you deserve, he ended,laughing. Burton never regretted having followedHaji Walls advice, which probably saved him frommany small difficulties. During his stay in Cairo the Indian doctor practisedhis art with some success. He began by curing an RICHARD BURTON 47 Abyssinian slave who was ill in the Wakalah, and thenhad to dose half a dozen others to cure them of snoring,a disagreeable habit which lowered their price in themarket. After this he became known outside the
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He became instead a Pathan. inn, and was even more successful as a physician thanhe had been at Alexandria. He soon decided that he must engage a servant.He summoned a Shaykh who supplies such wants,and on the following day he selected from among thosesent a Beriberi by name Ali, whom he engaged. Withina fortnight Ali stabbed a fellow servant and had to bedismissed. Many other Egyptian servants were tried* 48 THE BOOK OF THE LONG TRAIL but each had some incurable vice, and finally Burtondecided to keep only an Indian boy, Shaykh Nur byname. His next care was to provide himself accordingto custom with a teacher with whom to study Theologyduring his stay in Cairo. He found an old druggistcalled Shaykh Mohammed, who suited him very well,and who might have walked straight out of an ArabianNights tale. His shop front was a hole pierced in thewall of a house ; the shop itself was about 5 feet longand 6 feet deep, and was divided into two compart-ments. The inner one served as store-room and

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