CHAPTER XII

THE EMIR AND THE VIZIER "And all around, God's mantle of illimitable space . . ." In a few hours we reached the Great Oasis, an astounding forest of palm-trees, roughly square in shape, with a ten-mile side. My first glimpse of the Bedouin inhabitants of this area showed me that here was a people as different in spirit from those of Zaguig as it was possible to be. There was nothing here of the furtively evil, lowering suspicious fanaticism that makes "holy" places so utterly damnable. Practically no notice was t…