'Praise be to Allah! I am much relieved.

This other also is an Englishman, they tell me.

He is severely wounded, at the gate of death.' I went with him at once to see the sufferer, who seemed relieved to hear me speak, but could not answer.

Rashid and I did what we could to make him comfortable, giving the soldiers orders to keep out the crowd.

We decided to ride on and send a doctor, and then report the matter to a British consul.
'He was going down to start some kind of business in the city over there,' the leader of the soldiers told me, nodding towards the south.
'He had a largeish company, with several camels.