Chapter VIII
Reading edition
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.