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by the thousands of animals feeding 

 thereon. 



Yet Abd-ul-Kerim, though bound by- 

 hereditary obHgation to fight the Anazah 

 whenever and wherever they met, regarded 

 the amenites of Hfe, and his honour be- 

 came a proverb throughout the length and 

 breadth of the desert. It happened that 

 at one period of his life, in his boyhood, 

 he lived among the Anazah in the tents 

 of Jedaan's father. So, though when 

 they had grown to manhood these two 

 were bound to be always at war, Abd- 

 ul-Kerim never forgot his affection for 

 his boyhood friend. It happened then 

 that Abd-ul-Kerim, in the course of the 

 civil war, caught Jedaan's forces in such 

 a position that they were at his mercy. 

 The trap was to be sprung on the morrow 

 and Abd-ul-Kerim meant to push his 

 advantage to the utmost. Yet he wanted 

 to spare Jedaan individually. Therefore, 

 the night preceding the day of the climax, 

 he sent one of his men to Jedaan's camp 

 with his own white mare, bearing a mes- 



