A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. Vol. 1 [of 2] / A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "our Persian Campaign."

by Lady Anne Blunt

I. “What do you do all day long?”

Zeh. “We live in the kasr.”

I. “Don’t you go out at all?”

Zeh. “No; we always stay in the kasr.”

I. “Then you never ride as we do?” (I always ask if they ride, to see the effect.)

Zeh. “No, we have no mares to ride.”

I. “What a pity! and don’t you ever go into the country outside Haïl, the desert?”

Zeh. “Oh, no, of course not.”

I. “But, to pass the time, what do you do?”

Zeh. “We do nothing.”