That is simplest.

Let Abbas Mahommed lift me if he dares!" She was clearly a young woman not averse to experiences, as well as confident of her lord's good will.

But Grim had the peace of the border in mind; and the gang were not at all disposed to stand by meekly while Abbas Mahommed paid a debt so easily to a mere wool-merchant.
"I am an old man," said Ali Baba, "and must die soon.

May He Who never sleeps* slay me before I see my sons afraid to fight Abbas Mahommed and all his host!" [* A synonym for Allah] "Let's talk like wise men and not fools," proposed Grim at last, and since he had let them have their say first they heard him in silence now.

"The difficulty is that Abbas Mahommed's village lies at the corner of the Dead Sea.