When Stasch heard these words he also raised his eyes to heaven—and in this distant country, in the midst of the yellow, silent sand of the desert plains, he began:
“We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions in our necessities!”
All the relatives of the Mahdi bore the title “Noble”.
A large oasis to the west of the Nile.
CHAPTER VIII
Night faded away. They were just about to mount the camels when they suddenly perceived a desert wolf, which, dropping its tail between its legs, crossed over the narrow pass that lay about a hundred feet from the caravan, and gaining the opposite plateau, ran on, terrified, as if fleeing before an enemy. In the Egyptian wilderness there are no wild animals of which wolves are afraid, and therefore this sight greatly worried
