The Mayor of Jerusalem, who unfortunately died of pneumonia a fortnight later, and the Mufti, who, like the Mayor, was a member of a Mahomedan family which traces its descent back through many centuries, were presented, as were also the sheikhs in charge of the Mosque of Omar, 'the Tomb of the Rock,' and the Mosque of El Aksa, and Moslems belonging to the Khaldieh and Alamieh families.

Here the necessity of guidance was felt, and congregations came into existence, whose purpose it was to permit large groups of people under the leadership of their sheikhs, to participate simultaneously in the mystic union.

Its Sheikhs fought; his Imperial Highness sent troops to turn the balance of the fray, and to pacify the country.

The imperial authority is maintained principally by prompting disunion amongst the Sheikhs; Sous being divided into numerous districts, each district having an independent Sheikh.

They are known in general by the names of the Sheikhs who inhabit them.

Money is in this way buried by tribes, who have nothing whatever to fear from their sovereigns and their sheikhs; they do it from immemorial custom.

These two Sheikhs are objects of most religious veneration amongst all true believers, and there is nothing which would not be done at their bidding.

"Sheikh of sheikhs, it is done!

Thus Nehemoth passes on through the other Audience Chambers and receives, perhaps, some Sheikhs of the Arab folk who have crossed the great desert from the West, or receives an embassy sent to do him homage from the shy jungle people to the South.

The higher clergy in Christian circles, Bishops and Monsignors, were a favourite target, and among Moslems influential Sheikhs.

But there were three Christian sheikhs in the room.

As the reading from the Koran came to an end amid a murmur of responses from all the sheikhs, the crooked-faced Ichwan sat upright.

But it seemed obvious from their faces that not a few sheikhs were disposed to question both his leadership and most of what he said.

All except three Christian sheikhs trooped up the narrow stairway in Ali Shah al Khassib's wake, Anazeh going last with a half-serious joke about not caring to be stabbed in the back.

Those who were more or less drunk, and all the younger sheikhs had eyes and ears for nothing but the dancing girls.

But none of those sheikhs had ever seen Broadway, so you could hardly blame them.

DJA'BAL, son of Youssof, a sheikh, and saved by Maä'ni, in the great massacre of the sheikhs by the Knights Hospitallers in the Spo'radês.

We may see kings, queens, dukes, counts, sheikhs, beys, sultans, khedives, pashas, rajahs, and I don't know what potentates besides, and I wish to say just this one thing to you.

Below, in the court, stood a considerable guard, and about the sheikh's person were a number of subordinate sheikhs.

As for the rest contumacious and bellicose beys and sheikhs of Kurdish hills and Syrian steppestheir hour of surrender was yet to come.

The Pasha is the only person who has hitherto been able to oblige the Sheikhs to respect the property of those travellers not strong enough to protect themselves from outrage.

The supplies, for the most part, come from a considerable distance, but appear to be abundant; and when at length a good understanding shall have taken place between the British Government and the neighbouring sheikhs, the markets will be furnished with every thing that the countries in the vicinity produce.

It will be long, perhaps, before the neighbouring sheikhs will consent to an amicable arrangement with the British authorities of Aden, for they at present entertain the most exaggerated notions of the wealth of its new possessors.

There is a tale of two Sheikhs shortly after the Reconstruction began.

These are all mere remnants of theological discussions caught from the sheikhs.