The sea gypsy (1924)

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272 The Sea Gypsy The Caliph can only be chosen by all the Moslem peoples. At present there is none." No Caliph of Islam now. Right. And meanwhile King Hussein plans, I think, first to make a united Arabia, with himself at its head. Then, with this as the military power, to use both it and his own great religious influence as the Sherif of Mecca to have himself declared Caliph. The Emir Ali paid a return visit aboard the Wisdom the next afternoon. Before he arrived a dhow came alongside loaded with foodstuffs. It was sunk low in the water, with watermelons, pumpkins, egg-plants, bags of rice and sugar, and buckets of butter piled high above the gunnels; and crowded in one end of the boat were six bleating sheep. The Arabs began calmly to heave these things up onto our deck. I was about to shout to them to stop, for I had ordered nothing like this ashore, when their leader came aboard and, with many salaams, told me that all the abundance was a gift from the Emir Ali. An hour afterwards, one of Jidda's three launches, carrying the Prince, accompanied by a dozen high officials, came alongside. When we saw the Prince at his house at other times, as on our first visit, he wore simple and almost somber robes, but on this occasion his dress was magnificent. His head was covered with a silk kufiyah of grey. A gorgeous purple silk kamis, heavily embroidered with gold, hung to his feet. Over