Category: Adventure
Saïd the fisherman
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Chapters
1. Part I
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII NOTES TO PART I
2. Part II3. PART ONEThe house of Saïd the fisherman nestled among the sandhills of the seashore at a long stone’s throw from the town, in whose shadow it lay at sunset. Within, it was a single room...
4. CHAPTER XV.—“Jesus the Prophet, whom the faithful call Ruh’Allah.It has been told me for a fact that when the exiled Khedive Ismaìl Pasha (known to London street-boys of the period as old Ishmel Parker) was at Naples, one of the officers in a...
5. CHAPTER XIX.—“The House of Islâm and the House of War.” All theterritory successively annexed to the rising of the Ottoman Empire was classed either as forming part of the “dar ul Islâm,” the house of Islâm, or as belonging to the “dar ul h...
6. CHAPTER XIX.—“When the first of the sevens,” etc. It was predictedin the beginning of the present century by a much-revered sheikh that when the first of the sevens falls the ruin of Islâm will commence, and when the second falls it will have...
7. CHAPTER XXV.—“The garrison was divided into two companies” (Selìmloquitur). Ahmed Pasha sent some troops under the command of two colonels into the streets. They soon applied to him for instructions, under the impossibility of keeping the pea...
8. PART II“_O ye men, it is not the great king, nor the multitude of men, neither is it wine that excelleth; who is it then that ruleth them, or hath the lordship over them? Are they not...
9. ill. No one should laugh at a camel for his crookedness, nor at a woman“Enough,” he said. “I perceive clearly that the right is with thee, Ferideh. Now leave off fighting with that woman and come with me into the house. It is a sin that thou should...