Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 1, 1903, Page 25

Photographs Made by a Staff | Park Animals and the Deep SNOW | st Kiverview Park 4 “" BIT OF TANGLED WOODS AND SNOW., DEER PADDOCK WAS FAIRLY FREE. { - P {1 3 Dr. Musil was more fortunate. In 1900 himself, met them with eeven camels of Finding them obdurate, he and his men Iddnd Of Ardb I\lngb he had made a short visit to Arabia and the purest breed to be fouad in Arabia. concealed their own superstitious ter- (Continued from Fourth Page.) had won the friendship of one of the most Armed bedouins guarded the outfit, while rors ard advanced. " powerful of the Arab rulers, Emir Tajjal, others crept into the town and smuggled They found a strange palace indeed. For ' All Arabia believed that it was the abode the chief of the Beni Sachr, the “Sons of 0ut the travelers’ effects, more than 1,000 years of loneliness the red of the Djinns. Whoever approached it was the Rocks.” He accompanied him on a Then the two Austrians were garbed by sands of Arabia had piled around it. For met and slain by Djinns, appearing as pil- fighting expediticn against another tribe the Arabs in the favorite disguise of the more than 1,000 years probably no human lars of sand, as serpents or desert rob- and his services as surgeon had endeared men of the Arabian Nights storles—that foot had entered it. Yet it looked out over bers, but equally deadly whatever form they him to the old Arab. of physicians, Musil being named the phy- the illimitible deserts, not a ruin, but a assumed, The Emir Tajjal was an Arab of the sician Musa and Mielich the physician poble structure with all its lines intact. For many hundred years, travelers traditionary kind. Throughout the deserts, HnBa. There was only one door to the whole tempted by the legends tried to find Amra, from end to end of the peninsula, he was Sheik Hajel had spared no expense. That building. Nothing could induce the Arabs but always in vain. Most who tried re- equally honored for his integrity and no- involved no financial hardship for him, to enter and the Austrians went in alone. cently were turned back before they passed bility of character and feared for his power. however, for Dr. Musil says that he is s=o To their great delight they found the into the desert; for the sultan, while he So, when Dr. Musil, accompanied by his rich that he cannot estimate his own great wall paintings of which the legends pretends to control the desert dwcllers, friend, Alphons Leopold Mielich, the wealth. had told. The colors were still well pre- knows better. Therefore, to evade respon- painter, arrived in Madaba on the desert Tens of thousands of tribcemen pay him gerved and the pictures showed the life and sibility and still to keep up his pretense, frontier in 1901, prepared to search for tribute and every caravan that goes be- history of centuries before Christ and of he adopts the happy expedient of forbidding Amra, the watchfulness of the Turkish au- tween Mecca and Muscat, or Mecca and a nation and kings whose names have been travelers to cross the ‘‘dead line.” thorities was set at naught by his Arab Damascus, does the same. The unhappy only legends for twenty centuries, The explorers who were turned back were friends. caravans call it robbery., The Sheik and The travelers had been in the castle a luckier than most af those who got through. The Turks, suspecting the object of the the Emir call it tribute paid to them as little more than an hour when shots rang Most of them never returned. The few Austrians, warned them that they would masters of the land outside. Rushing forth they found a hot who did had little to tell except stories be arrested if they tried to leave the place. For three days and nights the party fight on between thelr escort and a horde of fights with Bedouins and narrow es- But one night they evaded the guards and crossed fiery sands. Then they saw, far ¢ gesert robbers. capes. None of them saw the “Ghost Pal- made- their way to a rendezvous In the on the horizon, & great building, and the The Austrians unslung their rifles and ace,” and in the course of time men leaned desert just outside of Madaba. Arab warriors stopped and prayed. The pitched in. But the party was hopelessly to the belief that Amra the Beautiful was Here Sheik Hajel, the brother of the shiek once more pressed on the Austrians a fiction of Arabia. . Emir, and as noble-hearted as that Emir the danger into which they were going. (Continued on Seventh Page.)