Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 350
eend of a staff, and we sallied forth. Save for this lantern and thatmoon — which did not seem half sogood a moon as we have at home — weshould have been in Stygian darkness aswe stumbled along the unlighted streets. On eitherhand stretched a high wall, pierced at intervals with adoor shaped like a… … 314 A Book of Famous Travels past us and vanished through an inky archway —possibly some belated slave bearing a scented missiveto Fatima or Noureddin. Once we came upon a tallRifan, with the red cloth case of his gun-barrel twistedround his brows for a turban ; and once the Hadjislantern lighted…
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