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being especially anxious to see Jedaan, 

 their War Sheik — known as the "Rob 

 Roy of the Desert." After great dif- 

 ficulties they got away from Deyr, and 

 in due time reached Tadmur, about half 

 way in the direct line between Deyr and 

 Damascus. Near this point Mr. Skene 

 overtook them, went with them among 

 the Anazah, helped them to buy horses 

 and continued with them to Damascus. 

 From that point the Blunts returned to 

 England via Beirut, Mr. Skene went 

 back to Aleppo. The next winter found 

 the Blunts again at Damascus, from which 

 point they made a journey across the 

 southern desert to Nejd, a part of the 

 world not reached by Upton; in fact a 

 place that no more than half a dozen 

 Europeans are known to have ever seen. 



The results of Upton's visit were writ- 

 ten in two books, "Newmarket and 

 Arabia," a sketchy statement of early 

 impressions, and a more serious work, 

 "Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia," 

 published after his death; now, unfor- 



