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Show HHKP IX ARABIA. A Ollmpkc of tho Country, People,' itnil Cnslons. JrJiDA, Arabia, May 15, 1S00- Special Correspondence of the BrsErtETovs-J Having at "Kos-seir( "Kos-seir( Egypt) been freely cross-questioned and subjected to some trivial indignities by the Pasha, and all for money, I abandoned lad Arabic and looked up my French, of which lie knew but little. This worked like a charm. We were now on an equal fooling, for although I was no Pasha, I spoke French, aud that gave him a. chance to pose- as a, scholar before his janissaries and minions, while the difference of color made up any lacking balance. I was soon invited to dine that p.m. There were nluo courses of fine food and sweets. We(i.e., thechiei men of the town and myself) stowed the dainties away a la Turqae, using neither spoon, knife nor fork. Next the dancers and singiug men, musiclans,eto.,eutered, as the Pasha said, to cheer our soul aud rest our spirits. The following day the Pasha called the pass-port clerk, captain of the shin aud myself into his mansion, and to undo any evil ho might have made nt first, he majestically waved his liaud to the clerk, saying: "Abdailah, see thou to it that this my Nazarenc friend rtctiveth projicr lapels, and part not thy lips about ruonc.)' And (to tlie other one) thou, O captain, care for him as for thy soul, and should any evil befall him among pirates, show thy face no more. If tbou carrlest him safely to Jedda, thy money await thee in my safe. Go ye in iacc".' When tlie wind was auspicious we sailed out. ON TUG RKD blU. It had blown hard and tho sea rolled high. "The sail Is ripping!" shouted a seaman, and tlie ethers lookup his cry. "Let her rip," said the skipper, thinking It would be all right. A tremendous crash was heard and the whole canvass was rent from end to end. When the sail was mended the yard broke! When that was lutched together the sixteen sailors shouted, ciapjied their liands fiercely, gut out base and kettle-drums tambourine and a lyre aud sang with sucli fantastic glee, and danced with such grotesque gro-tesque frenzy, that I should be safe in sijiug that tho readers of tlie New s ha e nver sceu the like, even among Indians. After a while we reached Yambo, the )-ort of Medina, where no Christian Is allow etl to go. Yamlw would never have existed except for Medina, for it lias neiftier water nor food of its own, all comes from elsewhere. else-where. Here we secured soldier, but could not start until wn had, for further safety, obtained the services of the Bon of a chief pirate. He took rhargo of all valuables, and uku his neck made himself responsible for them, tho cargo and mr! One afternoon pirates w ere sighted. Oh! what a flurry on bsard, while the rojies were loosened, fastened or chaugud about and the sail turned. Wo tied, using oars, for our skill-was skill-was only a Email thing (10-J tons). At sunset a cry of "Thank God!" went tip, for w o had struck A COHAX. ItCEF, nnd after a little mancuvring we were in tho midst of a Itivcn surrounded sur-rounded on all sides I y dangerous lianksofcoral.thec'Utranc-e-s to w hich the pirates could not find" without daylight. Meanwhile uir guard or escort ship had sailed off" either to wanl off the robbers or jarlcy with them. We anchored. Amid shouts of "hoot, hoot" (sharks), I jumped overboard, making for the lank, bound to see a coral reef. Ah, w 1 .at an enchautmenti What a fairy garden In tlib sea! Few, I thluk, could behold, (his Tor the first time w ithout having a wave of holy awe creep over them, aud a wondering, "la it possible that any but divine art and wisdom could have cou-ceived cou-ceived such k cnarmiug variants or transcript cf the vegetable kingdom?" king-dom?" Many have scorned the prophecy which relates to God havimrdecreed the utter destruction of the arm of the Bed Sc-a. Any Infidel who would consider the vast extent of the reefs In the Bed Sea, the industry indus-try of the SCoojili j tea w ho constantly constant-ly build them up toward the surface) and who have efcewhere built Island Is-land aud rtlons of continents, could soon accept that prophecy and see that ultimately the arm. of this sea will be dt-str0j ed, and of the present eea there will some slay remain re-main only salt lakes. Iu many irart". because of the lack of rivers or rain, there will remain after evaporation ouly Likes or bods of salt. SHU'S, SAIIJUKS, JLSIC. I The native ships or small jorts j such a one as I am upon can aptly be compared U the Illustrations Illustra-tions often r-cn of Columbus vessels ' or the Mayflower ot yore; but there I is something more primitive about' the Arab boats. In detail the ships! are like -red row boat, almost entirely en-tirely open. Foro is a small deck i upon which lies a crazy nssoitment of bcavy.oneyard long, five pointed grappling hooks, for sandy lotloms and simple hooks like n bent crowbar crow-bar to anchor in the reefs with. Then one notices rocks, old bombs and an old-time small cannon, all ud as anchors. Aftlsa tower-iiku crenelated jloUble deck. A 100 ton vessel carries sixteen stamen, all told. As one Kill is mido to pull the w hole load, tho yard is excee-dlngly heavy, and longer than the vessel Itself from head to stern, this being mauaged by simple and defective de-fective pulleys. The sail having no raefs, tho work of raising the sail demands fourteen of the sixteen hands. When that is doneand the Jlilp has be-en pumped through, the sailors hand one another up front t-low t-low leather bags frith straw handles full of the leakage water. They have no work to do, hardly a ro)e to splice in a wok; so a fire is built in a bin frame full of sand (this is really tlie only kitchen or stove on board), and tlie skins on tho drum and tambourim-a ate dried until drawn tight. Dancers aud singers clap their hands in rhythm, the players all slug, and we now have tli lusty, hoarse-voiced shouts of twelve or (blrteen sea wolves nnd reformed pirates. This is indulged in twice dally and once in the night. It is a national custom amoug Oriental sailors. -JEDnA, The gate or iwrt of Mecca was next reached. After palnfulir struggling through Ihe quarantine, customs and passport bureaus, amid pilgrims from China, Siam. India, Persia, Beloccbistan, Turkestan, Tartary, Seullmanla, Turkey, South Ruvsia, Monxcj. Tunis, .Egypt, Zanzibar, etc., I sought lodgings In vain. I hired a man to find men room. At last, when I presented myself, some spat ou tho ground saying: "Jtoo! a Xazarene take him hence." Tlie only Christian place here Is a Miliar.! hall, etc They have beds, for which they ask preposterous sums; so at last I went to the inn of the Grand ChcrifTof Mecca, the janitor of which was an Egyptian. Egyptians are seldom fanatics. He informed me that all rooms were full of pilgrims, and the court of the house too, but said he would furnish me a bench upon which I could sleep In tlie street. That is where 1 now spend my nights, and by day 1 put In my time looking for a shadv spot, i He also informed me that the Cherifl's Inn was 7000 years old,and tliat Abuna (our father, Adam) was buried in that big grave there." Except three or four paltry gardens gar-dens of rich Pashas there is not a tree or green blade In Jedda. There ba fountain near the town. AH green garden goods come from1 Mecca; all cercate except rice from I-EJT"- AH around Is a wilderness;, only here and 'there Is a dwarfed I tree seen in the landscape. Mecca I Is one and a half days' Journey from here. From It come all manner of sweet, rich and t.enetrating perfumes, per-fumes, frankincense, gum, barks and balsams, which all kinds of merchants here nt Jedda burn In their shop to attract trade. ArtAEIAS are not to l confounded with Arab. The latter are merely sons or mixed descendants of the former in other Mabommedan lands. Tho true Arab or Arabian is muscular aud beautiful as to physique. The physiognomy is regular, thu features classical, the beard handsome, though -not very heavy. Tho lace seems Intelligent; but hois not In reality Intellectual. He is bold, and will rob a rich pilgrim with as good grace and as politely as he will lodge a -poor -onv. The Koran lias something to do with this. An Arabian Ara-bian traveling through this desert, mountainous country, It possessing only a dollar, will not start out until provided with a big culUsd and sword or spear (two whltearms), and one fire arm at least, either of which pistol or'ancleut Moorish gun is tired by a Hint stone. Confidence Confi-dence In each other is scarce, though they txnuancntly address ad-dress each other as "Brother", "Broth-er", and "O! friend." Men and women dress as much as possible ingauze, lawn and thin muslin. The heat requires It. Men wear sandals instead of slipiers or.shoes. The upper straps of these sandals are of multicolor leather, often embroidered embroi-dered with gold and silver. Ladles street shoes resemble a stocking madeof yellow kid, without heel or undersole. Boys go around naked very often, and littles girls wear a primitive though ticautiful belt or girdle from which hang several hundred straps like shoo latchets, allfulIofpreciouHseashells. Around tho neck hang charm aud coins, around the ankles are silver, brace-letsadorned brace-letsadorned each witli a dozen miniature mini-ature sleigh-bells cf silver which tlnklo sweetly as they spring about. KAXATICIS5I. Tlie Arabians arefanatlcoabaveall Mahommedaiis;audwhy not? Mecca Mec-ca is thu city of Itabbna (our Lord). Hero at sunrise God descend and croclls until sunset, to return ngalu ou the morrow; and it is tho city of the "liest" prophet. At Me-dl-na Fatma is iuried; at Jedda, Father Adam. Then it i the Ht-jaz Ht-jaz the pilgrim laud. At times It would lie, more proper to call that hyjiocrisy which seem fanaticism. One day I gave a pilgrim food: u e nto and drank together; an Lour later, in my hearing, this same man fell upon a co-religionist who had Just taken a drink of water aud said: "Art thou of Islam aud drlnkeat by daylight during ILaui-adau? ILaui-adau? (tho mouth of fisting, when they eat by night only). I have several times been upbraided for eating. A gentleman said to me not later than yesterday: "Thou dog! Kiiowcst not thou it is robbery rob-bery not to "fast?" I answered him, nnd he retorted: ".Never mind Turkey or Constantinople; they are Iu the hand of dogs filtny Christians- but this is the Hfjax." And lie threw to the ground what I had In my lauds, telling me to go hence and cat. I said, "Where in tlie sea?"" Xo; go into that den' (the saloon). I asked, "Is it better for me to drink strong drink now than to eat? He spat on thegruund, stamped hW foot and swore: "By the beard of our God these Christians are cuunlng! Never can wo hinder their doings or catch them In their words. Wretches! Dogs! Phew! Hut God hel, and w list is "urtUcn ttwni ten," said he. As to me, houseless, house-less, where could 1 go and cat but onthcstrecl? Howe ver, they are a good people In njiuy restiect". |