A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
1 But to invoke Samiel and obtain his gifts was a body, mind, and nerve-racking business.
2 Samiel disappears, and the tempest abates.
3 If in such a place and at such a time he drew a circle around himself with his hunting-spear and called " Samiel ! "
4 Avoid it as you would the poisonous exhalations of the Bohon Upas, and fly it as you would the dreadful Samiel of the Arabian desert.
5 The noise grows worse, the earth seems to quake, until at length after Caspar's reiterated invocations Samiel shows himself at the word, "seven".
6 The course of six of them rested with the "free shooter," but the seventh belonged to Samiel , who might direct it wheresoever he wished.
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