“She then showed us several goat-skins filled with the meat.”
“As if a Mussulman were not allowed to keep salted meat in his tent!”
“And, to remove all doubt as to where the meat came from, she showed us the bullock’s head lying in one corner of the tent, still in a state sufficiently preserved to enable us to recognise the animal.”
“What a horrible she-vagabond! But her evidence is good for nothing; I had given her a beating not two days before.”
“Our only thought then was to seize the wild-boar who is now before you. There was the difficulty; for this son of Satan is as strong as no one else, and can knock down a camel with a blow of his fist.”
“What a joke! I am as mild as a sheep.”
“Twenty of us met in company, and at dawn of day, informed by his wife—”
“What a pity I did not strangle her, as I meant to!”
“Informed by his wife that he was still asleep, we rushed down upon him; and, after a hard struggle, contrived to bind him in the way you see, as he lay on his mat.”
“Sidi Abd-Allah! What treachery! To attack a good Mussulman as he lay asleep!”