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of finding the donkeys with the tent and some food. 

 Some travellers came by, whom my servants rushed 

 at and despoiled of some of the bread they had with 

 them ; thus at any rate my retinue ate some breakfast. 

 I stopped at some houses, which were only a very 

 short way from the place where we had lain out for 

 the night, but during and after the thunder-storm it 

 had been so dark that we could not see around us. 

 The inhabitants of these huts gave me some eggs, 

 which provided material for my breakfast. When I 

 got to Maihumloo there was no sign of either tent or 

 donkeys, which had gone on before us, so I stayed in 

 the dry bed of a watercourse that was very plea- 

 santly shaded over. I succeeded in making a fire and 

 cooking my eggs for breakfast, and sent Goubasee off 

 to look for the donkeys. He seemed to think that 

 they had gone on in front of us to the village of 

 Sememmar, so he went up there to look for them, and 

 returned without having found them ; but shortly 

 afterwards they all appeared. Hadji Mahomet, who 

 had charge of them, had taken good care not to 

 sleep out in the jungle like ourselves, but had halted 

 in a village not far off and stayed there for the 

 night. I sent them on, in the afternoon, to Sememmar, 

 and from thence they were to go on to Zadawalka. 



After the heat of the day, and when I had rested 

 myself by lying in the shade, I started after the 



