Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 633
resently, through a gateway at the end of thegarden, a line of Sudanese servants, clad in white,appeared; they were large, strong fellows, andeach one bore in front of him a kind of platform,like the top of a circular table with the legs gone;on each of these huge trays was a cone-like cover, like… … N THE LONG, HARD RIDE TO RABAT. lated Ted, who could almost have cried with hun-ger. The slaves set down their luscious burdens,and stood a few moments, flicking away the flieswhich hovered around the steaming food. Nowentered the khalifa, a young man of twenty-five;and the usual greetings were…
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