“Eighty boutjous.”
“Sixty. She is not strong; she will not be able to carry the dung out of the stable.”
“In two years she will carry the dung of all the horses belonging to thy tent. Eighty boutjous.”
“Seventy.”
“Her hands are delicate; she has never worked. Eighty boutjous. Yea or nay? the Sultan waits for me.”
The Garraba paid them and bade his slave follow him; the poor girl left the tent fixing on me her eyes bathed in tears. I saw the Garraba stop at the Sultan’s tent to receive the price of the Frenchman’s head, and in a few minutes they left the camp, and I lost sight of the poor black girl.
[5] The Arab subterraneous granaries and barns, which are carefully covered with lime, and excavated with so much art as to exclude all moisture, and preserve the contents for years; the only access to them is through a funnel-shaped hole at the top, barely large enough to admit a man.
CHAPTER VI.
Revolt of Abd-el-Kader’s uncle—His letter—Jews—Attack on the Beni-Flitas and Houledscherifs—Horrible execution of a prisoner—Vermin—Tekedemta—Letter from the Arab prisoners at Marseilles.