She told me that she had been consumptive, and that it was for the sake of her health they came out here." "That accounts for it, Murray.

By the date, they were probably only married a year or so before they came out; and a man who loved a young wife, and saw no other way of saving her, would throw up any berth at home, in order to give her the benefit of a warm climate.

Still, it is a little curious that, if he had only been out here a year or so before Hicks started, he should have learned Arabic sufficiently well to get a post as interpreter.

I have been in the country about three years, and can get on fairly well with the natives, in matters concerning my own work; but I certainly could not act as general interpreter.
"Well, I am glad to have heard this, for you know the sort of men interpreters generally are.

From the lad's appearance and manner, there is no shadow of doubt that his mother was a lady.