Capitolo 12
amazing ideas, entered also for discussion. Napoleon Bonaparte and Regina
Victoria anchors you/he/she is living figures to them; but (meaningfully enough)
they considered the Kaisers they govern of all the kings of this world with the,
exception of the Sultan that they admitted the equality.
It rarely made a passage in the evening without a dance. As it fell the obscurity the Arabs,
it would gather in a great circle around one of their comrades that
him squatted on the earth with a bamboo flute; to a smaller and strange music them
it would start to rippling and to stir around while some poet of same-chosen among
they would sing extemporaneous verses to the flute _obbligato_. As a rule the
themes were simple.
"To-tomorrow we will eat rice and meat", the singer would groan.
"Lili-amali"_ of _Yaha (my effort is granted), it came the they full-strangled
answer of all the others. The choir was tremendously real.
The singer would sometimes satisfy in pointed personality, with
in conformity with roars of laughter.
These dances lasted for times, and as them they gradually advanced the men
him worked above in a frenzy. I never succeeded in asking me these
people that, without the help of alcohol, you/he/she could reproduce the various one
stages of the drunkenness. As I placed from and the moon that serenely rides looked
above these frantic men and their torsion they blacken shades, I reflected
what they had been as soon as in the condition when a word from a holy man is able
you are enough to send them street to sell to the wholesale murder and robbery.
It was soon my good luck to be released by the noise and garbage of
the mosque. Me had experiment with Turkish and corruptible officers; and
one day, when the conditions of lodging became unbearable, I went the
official that commands our division--an old Arab from Latakieh that you/he/she had been
called by retirement to the duration of the mobilization. He lived in a
small curtain near the mosque, where I found him/it squatting himself/herself/itself on the floor,
drowsily mentioning with the head on his/her comfortable belly. As he was an officer of