Capitolo 46
sorry goodbye to my people, and it put away for Jaffa, while only traveling
from night and taking runs of out-of-the-way to avoid the pickets, for now
what the country of locust was ended, my _boyouroulton_ was useless. To
it dawns, two days later, I slipped in way Jaffa of the sand-dunes and
gone the home of a friend in that I could have trust help me in each
possible way, and it implored him to find me a passport for a neutral. He put
away in search and me I waited for every day to his/her house, consumed with
the impatience and the anxiety. Toward evening, my friend finally returned,,
but the news that he has brought was not consoling. He had found a passport,
indeed, but its relationship of the rigidities of the inspection in the bench was
as to make to clarify him/it that the opportunities of mine to get through on a
false passport is very thin, since I was known well in Jaffa.
If I was picked up in such enterprise, it is probable that I/you/he/she intend death for me and
punishment for the friends that had helped me.
Evidently this plan was not feasible. That whole night me the racked my brain
for a solution. Finally me decided to tie to a pole everything on what appeared
being my only opportunity. The Tennessee was due next day but one,
soon in the morning. I gave the name of a boatman that was to my friend
under obligations to me and you/he/she had sworn to be my friend for the life or death.
Also under the circumstances I hesitated to have trust in a Moslem but it
seemed the only thing to do; I had left of anybody alternative. My friend brought the
boatman, and I put my plan in front of him, while appealing to his intrepid and his
sense of honor. I wanted him to take me to midnight in his/her fishing-boat
from an isolated part of the coast and it waits for the aspect of the
Tennessee; then, on his/her arrival, among the climb of boats full of
refugees, I was to jump on board, while he would return with the other
boats. The poor individual tried to make remonstrations, while pointing out the dangers
and what he called--exactly enough, undoubtedly--the folly of the plan. ME