ations from Asia, India and Africa, earrings, necklaces, collars andbrooches set with fiery diamonds, emeralds and sapphires. With his spread fingers Yakub indicated a segment of the sky. All the eastern tribes were placed underhis banner. Their spears and lances rested against the wall behind them,and their sheathed swords were laid across their laps.
The men being massacred by the guns on the openground were brave, but they were not the elite of the Dervish army. In his reply Sir Peter agreed that theBenbrook sisters might make their home at Clercastle until such time astheir future had been decided. There was also a small single-edged sword**carried by women and fastened inside the robe. But the Dervish are still shooting atus.
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