Charles Morris
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7,961 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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Here he was too near the caliph for safety, and he kept on westward to Barca, where he hoped for protection from the governor, who owed his fortunes to the favour of the late caliph.
He was mistaken.
Ibn Habib, the governor of Barqa, put self interest above gratitude and made vigorous efforts to seize the fugitive, whom he hoped to send as a welcome gift to the cruel Abdullah.
The life of the fugitive was now one of hair breadth escapes.
For five years he remained in Barca disguised and under a false name, yet in almost daily peril of his life.
On one occasion a band of pursuers surrounded the tent in which he was and advanced to search it.
His life was saved by Tekfa, the wife of the chief, who hid him under her clothes.
When in later years he came to power he rewarded the chief and his wife richly for their kindly aid.
On another occasion, a body of horse rode into the village of tents in which he dwelt as a guest, and demanded that he should be given up.
The handsome aspect and gentle manner of the fugitive had made the tribesmen suspect that they were the hosts of their disguised prince.
He had gained a sure place in their hearts, and they set the pursuers on a false scent.
Such a person was with them, they said, but he had gone with a number of young men on a lion hunt in a neighbouring mountain valley, and would not return until the next evening.
The pursuers at once set off for the place mentioned, and the fugitive, who had been hidden in one of the tents, rode away in the opposite direction with his slender train.
Leaving Barca, he journeyed farther westward over the desert, which at that point comes down to the Mediterranean.
Finally, Tahart was reached, a town within the modern Algeria.
The seat of the Beni Rustam, a tribe which gave him the kindliest welcome.
To them, as to the Barkins, he seemed a prince in disguise.
Nearby was a tribe of Arabs named the Nefezah, to which his mother had belonged, and from which he hoped for protection and assistance.
Reaching this he told his rank and name and was welcomed almost as a king.
The tribesmen, his mother's kindred, paying him homage and offering their aid to the extent of their ability in the ambitious scheme which he disclosed.
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