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A Journal of a Residence in the Esmailla of Abd-El-Kader and of Travels in Morocco and Algiers
A Journal of a Residence in the Esmailla of Abd-El-Kader and of Travels in Morocco and Algiers Author:Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1842 Original Publisher: Whittaker Subjects: Algeria Morocco Algiers (Algeria) History / Africa / General History / Africa / North Travel / Africa / General Travel / Africa / Morocco Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illust... more »rations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: EMBUHL. 21 On the 38th we passed the night at a place called Embuhl, one day's journey distant from Taasa. This was not a particularly pleasant quarter, as a short time before we stopped, a party who had remained here for the night, and who were proceeding to Tlemecen with arms for the service of the Emir, were attacked; two of the party were killed, and the robbers succeeded in carrying off two mules laden with muskets. Here, as in fact every other night since we reached Charagah, we were furnished with a guard by the tribe where we slept; but in addition to these, three of our own party were constantly mounted as an inner guard over the tents, and Mr. M. and myself acted as officers of the watch, relieving each other at twelve o'clock at night. Our Capatras had a narrow escape this morning; he had gone away from the tents in search of a mule which had broken loose; he had not been observed to leave, but on his return, Candido, who was on sentry, seeing him approach, challenged him in Spanish, which as the Arab did not understand, he took no notice of, but continued drawing near to the camp. Candido, anxious to show his zeal in the service, had levelled his piece ; a few seconds more, and the muleteer would have received the contents of it. Having 22 NARROW ESCAPE OF MULETEER. heard the challenge given, I just came out in time to recognize the muleteer, and stop blackee from proving that he was determined to stand by ...« less