I clinched my hands at the bewildered embarrassment in her eyes, at the sneer in the voice of the questioner, yet held myself silent.
No one disturbed me, the Captain was still in his stateroom, where, once or twice, I imagined I heard him pacing the floor.
The one thing I desired now was to reëstablish myself fully in her confidence, assure her I was at liberty on board, able and willing to be of service.
It has nothing whatever to do with the Henley matter," he exclaimed, leaning back in his chair, and surveying me shrewdly through his dark eyes.
Except that it was more commodious, and contained a washstand at one corner, it did not differ greatly from the other forward where I had been held prisoner.
Instead of names, initials were employed to designate individuals referred to, and it was evident the recipient had been addressed at various places.
Two oars and a short mast together with a roll of canvas were stowed on top the thwarts, and secured by lashings.
I may be the man you want, and all that, but I have got to be convinced first that I am not making another mistake.
I could not have forged that; I had not time; no information which would have led to such an act.
I came down here originally believing myself an agent of justice, only to discover I had been duped.
It was hardly to be supposed that you would confess your fraud at once, and--before your lover.
I 'm to be drill-master, or general, for those tattered battalions down in the jungles.
I would be a dastard to doubt, or desert, her cause now, and the warm blood throbbed in my veins responsive to the memory of what had already been between us.
It was a dark night, although a few stars were visible, and the Sea Gull was steaming slowly through a fairly rough sea, pounding against her port quarter.
The legal papers, which absolutely establish my identity as Philip Henley, are in the hands of lawyers, who represent me at Carrollton.
The maribout stopped his dromedary at the tent of the emir Hadjy, who commanded the caravan.
Having for some time declaimed in such an energetic manner as to spread consternation throughout the camp, he turned his dromedary again to the west, and in a few minutes was out of sight.
FN#7] Still being resolved to push forward by any conveyance that could be procured, I offered ten dollars for a fresh dromedary to take me on to Al- Madinah.
A fertile source of error to home geographers, computing distances in Arabia, is their neglecting the difference between the slow camel travelling and the fast dromedary riding.
This journey is performed with camels in four days, and a good dromedary will do it without difficulty in half that time.
The road lay up rocky hill and down stony vale; a tripping and stumbling dromedary had been substituted for the usual monture: the consequence was that we had either a totter or a tumble once per mile during the whole of that long night.
FN#l] The proper hire of a return dromedary from Cairo to Suez is forty piastres.
Perhaps this philological connection may have determined Mohammed to consider the kneeling of the dromedary a sign that Allah had blessed the spot.
Our party consisted of twelve camels, and we travelled in Indian file, head tied to tail, with but one outrider, Omar Effendi, whose rank required him to mount a dromedary with showy trappings.
The bridegroom sacrificed a young dromedary in honor of the occasion, and to furnish, as it were, the sacramental feast.
Portions of the dromedary were eaten by all the guests, and a portion was sent to the stranger encamping near them.
The white dromedaryhad an escort of eight camels, including Romney's pair, and some twenty desert horsemen.
Rajananda journeyed on with them the next morning, the dromedary abreast, held to the slower pace of the white man's beast.
Two new camels were supplied at Wampli for Romney and Bamban, but the white dromedary continued the journey.
The white dromedary sped forward in silence, making the pace for the rested camels.
Rajananda's province did not include Nadiram, and in thinking of this, the American recalled that the famous white dromedary had not entered there.
For two hours the dromedary swung forward, keeping the trot steadily and the line due east.
When the dromedary lifted itself out of the last break of the wady, the traveller had passed the boundary of El Belka, the ancient Ammon.
You ride the dromedary in the same fashion; you are perched rather than seated on a bunch of carpets or quilts upon the summit of the hump.
It happened that my dromedary veered rather suddenly from her onward course.
The same evening he sent the Great Council a dromedary laden with bracelets collected from the dead, and with horrible threats ordered another army to be despatched.
Among other Entertainments she gave her Guests, the favourite white Dromedary was brought forth, ready Saddled and Bridled.
They had not hoped escape Could they have backed the Dromedary then Who in his rapid race Gives to the tranquil[84] air, a drowning force.
Chenier says "the Dromedary can travel 60 leagues in a day, his motion is so rapid that the rider is obliged to be girthed to the saddle, and to have a handkerchief before his mouth to break the current of the wind.
The swift camel or saddle dromedary has been known to make ten miles an hour, though his ordinary pace will not exceed seven or eight.
Mohammed Ali Pasha, who ruled over Egypt in the early part of this century, once rode on a dromedary from Suez to Cairo, eighty-two miles, in less than ten hours.
The pedigrees are handed down, and many a dromedary can boast a genealogy far longer than the descendants of the Darley Arabian.
But fleetness and strength are valued in camels and dogs; and we have with the former the swiftdromedary and heavy camel; with the latter the greyhound and mastiff.
It is also seen occasionally in Arabia and other countries; but in these it is rare, the dromedary taking its place for all purposes required by man.
The dromedaryof my slave Hadad was worth a hundred aurelians.
Not far from me, my own dromedary stood, partly buried in sand, and vainly endeavoring to extricate himself.
Once it was of size sufficient to admit an elephant with his rider; now, he says, has it become so obstructed, and in some places so fallen in, that it is with difficulty that a dromedary of but the common size can force his way through.
Here was a body partly out of the sand, there the head or leg of a dromedary or camel.
My faithfuldromedary will be worn out by the long journey: that too must be made good.
The Rakb, or dromedary Caravan, 50 Principal officers of the Caravan to Meccah, ii.
Late in the afternoon the boy Mohammed started with a dromedary to procure water from the higher part of the Fiumara.
This is a Dromedary Caravan, in which each person carries only his saddle-bags.
It was the boy Mohammed, who, heartily tired of riding a dromedary with his friend, and possibly hungry, hastened to inform my companion Abdullah that he would lead him to his Shugduf and to his son.
Moreover, he had been laughed to scorn by the Badawin, who seeing him pull up his dromedary to mount and dismount, had questioned his sex, and determined him to be [p.
A goodly steamer guarded my one flank, panting and throbbing, flags fluttering fore and aft of her, illustrative of the Dromedary and patriotism.
It may be as well to state that during the night, the Prince's dromedary had returned to its original owner.
Rustan turned pale, stammered out a compliment, took leave of his host, and galloped upon his dromedary to the capital city, where the ceremony was to be performed.
From the description she gave of your person, from the time, from the dromedary on which you were mounted, and from every other circumstance, I inferred that Zadig was the man who had fought for her.
I don't doubt it at all," said the Doubtful Dromedary to everyone's surprise.
So, single file, the little company turned in at the narrow path, the Comfortable Camel advancing with timid steps and the Doubtful Dromedarybobbing his head dubiously.
The Doubtful Dromedary wagged his head from side to side in a dazed fashion.
The Silver Islanders were still a bit dazed by the turn affairs had taken and stared in astonishment as the Scarecrow and Sir Hokus fastened thick ropes around the Cowardly Lion, the Doubtful Dromedary and the Comfortable Camel.
First, Happy brought them a delicious luncheon, with plenty of twigs and hay for the camel and dromedary and meat for the Cowardly Lion.
A boat large enough to hold Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, Happy Toko, the camel and the dromedary could not very well be launched in secret.
The voice of the Doubtful Dromedary came hesitatingly through the gloom.
The Cowardly Lion, the Camel and Dromedary and Sir Hokus peered anxiously at the little girl, wondering what in the world was going to happen.
The doubtful dromedary wept, As o'er the desert sands he stept, Association with the sphinx Has made him doubtful, so he thinks!
And what a welcome they gave Sir Hokus, the Doubtful Dromedary and the Comfortable Camel!
Dorothy laughed in spite of herself, and the Dromedary regarded her sulkily.
Inland and to the north rise the mounds and tumuli, the sole remains of ancient Elath, once the port of Petra, which is distant only two dromedary marches.
Fifthly, if a Shaykh of Huwaytát fancied a dromedary belonging to one of the Beni 'Ukbah, the latter must sell it under cost price.
No animal in creation has so many devout eyes concentrated on its unbeautiful outlines as the dromedary which conveys, under a canopy of green silk, the gorgeously embroidered covering for the walls of the Kabah.
A delool is a dromedary trained and used as a saddle animal, and not as a burden carrier.
The jewel at Florence (2 inches in diameter) has a border of green enamelled leaves set with pearls, and in the centre a finely modelled figure of a dromedary in white enamel.
