CHAPTER VIII.

ON RETURN FROM INDIA.

Boulogne--Bayonet exercise--Meets me at Boulogne at school--His famous journey to Mecca and El Medinah--His start from Alexandria to Cairo--Twelve days in an open Sambúk--Ten days' ride to Mecca--Moslem Holy Week--The all-important crisis--His safe return--On board an English ship--Interesting letters--The Kasîdah--The end of the Kasîdah--Christian Poetry.