A kafila was announced; and in time there arrived a merchant from Buduckshan.
He observed, too, that the flour was all but out, and as the Yarkand kafila would come up to-day, we could indent upon them for their promised contribution.
Here you are safe; no rascally Dacoo would dare to meddle with a kafila like ours, and we shall pass the nulla, as we have those behind us, without a thought of its dangers or what has ever happened in it.
I: "I never heard of thieves on the road, though my kafila would have been worth plundering.
But a letter arriving with the intelligence that Bagdhad was all in confusion, our kafila separated, and I resolved to go on through Persia to Armenia, and so to Syria.
Had the kafila gone on that night, I could not have accompanied it; but it halted there a day, by which means I got a sort of night's rest, though I awoke twenty times to dip my burning hand in water.
The night before we found a black scorpion in our tent; this made us rather uneasy; so that though the kafila did not start till midnight, we got no sleep, fearing we might be visited by another scorpion.
The name of this village is Fiwik, it is distant six parasangs from the last; but we were eight hours accomplishing it, and a kafilawould have been twelve.
When we began to flag and grow sleepy, and the kafila was pretty quiet, one of the muleteers on foot began to sing: he sang with a voice so plaintive that it was impossible not to have one's attention arrested.
I so far prevailed as to get thekafila into motion at midnight.
Thus we went on, and as often as the kafila by their dulness and sleepiness seemed to require it, or perhaps to keep himself awake, he entertained the company and himself with a song.
They had numerous Tuarick visitors, some residents of the town, and others belonging to a kafila about to depart for the Tuarick country.
They found that houses were provided for them in the town, but the kafila bivouacked outside the gates.
For a quaint and almost comic spectacle, a bivouac of a camel Kafila or caravan on the march is not easily surpassed.
In a turquoise twilight crisp and chill, A Kafilacamped at the foot of the hill.
So, getting his horse at the village, and taking one of the Aeniza with him, he went off in the direction which the sheik's kafila had taken.
Nor were there wanting living objects to animate the scene; our own little kafila was sufficiently large and cheerful to banish every idea of dreariness, and we encountered others much more picturesque.
Part of the time the kafilawould be traversing a narrow valley by the seashore, and in the next hour following a zigzag path up the side of some precipitous mountain.
Towards midnight, when the hopes and strength of all were nearly exhausted, the kafila arrived at a walled village where a gate was opened to admit them.
The sand was at length heaped up so as to completely cover his body, when by an order from the old sheik his followers turned away from the spot and the kafila moved on.
The old sheik and his followers then betook themselves to their camels; and the kafila was hurried up the dry bed of the river, leaving the wreckers to continue their toilsome and unprofitable task.
Soon after encountering the locusts, the kafila came upon a well-beaten road running through a fertile country, where hundreds of acres of barley could be seen growing on both sides.
On the following morning, as the kafila was about to continue its journey, three men were seen approaching on swift camels; and shortly after Rias Abdallah Yezzed and two of his followers rode up.
The kafila had arrived on the northern border of the great Saara; and a few days more would bring them to green fields, shady groves, and streams of sparkling water.
On this invitation the camels of the kafilawere unloaded, and the tents pitched.
This giving universal satisfaction, the Arab kafila took its departure, leaving the caravan of the traders by the well, where they were intending to remain for some time longer.
Every hour of the journey presented some additional evidence that the kafila was leaving the Great Desert behind, and drawing near a land that might be considered fertile.
Early next morning the kafila was en route for the seashore, which was discovered not far distant.
Part of the time the kafila would be in a narrow valley by the seashore, and in the next hour following a zigzag path on the side of some precipitous mountain.
The old sheik and his followers then betook themselves to their camels; and the kafila was hurried up the dry bed of the river,--leaving the wreckers to continue their toilsome and unprofitable task.
On the following morning, as the kafila was about to continue its journey, three men were seen approaching on swift camels; and shortly after Rais Abdallah Yessed, and two of his followers rode up.
The sand was at length heaped up, so as completely to cover his body, when, by an order from the old sheik, his followers turned away from the spot and the Kafila moved on.
This giving universal satisfaction, the Arab Kafila took its departure, leaving the caravan of the traders by the well, where they were intending to remain for some time longer.
In such places the kafila would have to proceed in single file, while the Moors would be constantly cautioning the slaves against falling from the backs of their animals.
Soon after encountering the locusts, the kafila came upon a well-beaten road, running through a fertile country, where hundreds of acres of barley could be seen growing on both sides.
Towards midnight, when the hopes and strength of all were nearly exhausted, the kafila arrived at a walled village, where a gate was opened to admit his slaves.
Every hour of the journey presented some additional evidence that the kafila was leaving the great desert behind, and drawing near a land that might be considered fertile.
The kafila had arrived on the northern border of the great Saaera; and a few days more would bring them to green fields, shady groves, and streams of sparkling water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kafila" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
