The dogs of Harith

p [192], line, Roberts, 112 x 108 mm

Signature, 'William Roberts', brc. Large group of men within a fort, some at a table, looking out on pack of dogs on ground below, at left.

p 420 [tr ed p 438] - '. . . when there rose a strange, long wailing round the towers outside. Ibn Bani seized me by the arm and held to me, shuddering. I whispered to him, "What is it?" and he gasped that the dogs of the Beni Hillal, the mythical builders of the fort, quested the six towers each night for their dead masters.'

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