"Let this Abbas Mahommed come and take me.

I have a knife for his belly in any event.

You go on to Ali Higg and say his wife is in the hands of that scum.

Ali Higg can cross the desert in three days, and by the evening of the fourth day there will be no village left, nor a man to call Abbas Mahommed by his name.

If I haven't killed him already Abbas Mahommed will be carried off to Petra with the women, who shall watch what is done to him before they are apportioned with the other loot.