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Salim spoke up for a stranger on the ramp at Kerak, and it cost him a mare and two fingers.
Salim and his brother Jazi come up from Elji in Wadi Musa with cloth woven by Salim's wife Hind. They owe silver to Dhiab, whose son lost an eye to Jazi's hoe. The sheikh's nephew Mufaddi stops a ragged traveller whose Arabic sounds like a book, and Salim tells him it is Aleppo talk. Now Salim is surety for the man who calls himself Sheikh Ibrahim.
He is Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. Sheikh Youssef of Kerak takes his saddle and his stirrups, then takes Salim's last coins and the Yemeni beans meant for a coffee stall at Ma'an. Burckhardt writes in secret with a pencil stub and looks at walls too long. He has heard of a valley with houses cut in the rock, the valley where Salim lives.
