Meanwhile, you have a harp, and therefore it is probable that you can play and sing; also you have pearls.

Now the inhabitants of this town whereof I spoke to you love music.

Also they love pearls, and as you cannot begin your journey to Napata for three months, when the rain on the mountains will have filled the desert wells, I suggest that you would do wisely to settle yourselves there for a while.

Nurse Asti here would be a dealer in pearls, and you, her daughter, would be a musician.

What say you ?" "I say that I should be glad to settle myself anywhere out of this desert," said Tua wearily.