CHAPTER XIV

Accompanied by Abd’allah ibn Moussa, Koko, the _hakim_, and the Angel’s servants who had waited upon me, and knew me to be a _Roumi_, I set forth, my _haik_ well across my face, to visit the Emir el Hamel el Kebir, Chief of the Confederation of Bedouin tribes that inhabited the desert country which extended from Zaguig to the Senussi sphere of influence, and had its capital or centre in the Great Oasis. His name, titles and position I had learned, as far as possible, from the Angel; from Abd’allah ibn Moussa, who a…