NAWADIR[2] We had arrived in a village of the mountains late one afternoon, and were sauntering about the place, when some rude children shouted: 'Hi, O my uncle, you have come in two!' It was the common joke at sight of European trousers, which were rare in those days.

But Suleyman was much offended upon my account.

He turned about and read those children a tremendous lecture, rebuking them severely for thus presuming to insult a stranger and a guest.

His condemnation was supported on such lofty principles as no man who possessed a particle of religion or good feeling could withstand; and his eloquence was so commanding yet persuasive that, when at length he moved away, not children only but many also of the grown-up people followed him.
The village was high up beneath the summit of a ridge, and from a group of rocks within a stone's throw of it could be seen the sea, a great blue wall extending north and south.

We perched among those rocks to watch the sunset.