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jackal with all their might, a good proof of the capabilities of 

 these plucky dogs. 



We now set off for home across a very rugged hill, where 

 the dogs were made to try some holes, outside which there 

 were fresh tracks of foxes, jackals, and even of hyaenas, but 

 these attempts were unhappily unsuccessful. The heat, too, 

 was frightful, and the dogs soon got tired on the burning 

 rocks. 



On reaching the camp we recruited ourselves with a few 

 hours of rest ; before sunset, however, Waldburg and I 

 clambered about the slopes of the valley, in which we had 

 watched for jackals the previous evening ; but as neither our 

 efforts to rout out something with the dogs, nor our careful 

 attempt to stalk an old cock partridge, which was drumming 

 on a flat rock, succeeded, we had to content ourselves with 

 a fine view of the mountains by the Dead Sea, which we 

 obtained by climbing to the high ridge on the opposite side 

 of the valley. As soon as it began to get dark we returned 

 to the camp and retired early to rest, in order to prepare 

 ourselves for the coming journey to the valley of the Jordan. 



On the morning of the 3rd the whole camp was astir at 

 an early hour. The tents were struck, and the baggage put 

 on the pack-animals. Two more hyaenas had been brought 

 in from Tantur, fine large specimens, which had poisoned 

 themselves in the night with the same donkey's head. 



Some Bedouins from the south-western mountains of the 

 Dead Sea came into camp. They were fine manly fellows 

 with noble features, muscular, sinewy, and rather dark. The 

 tribe to which they belonged was wild, perfectly lawless, but 

 very poor, and both their clothing and weapons were indica- 

 tive of the narrow circumstances of their life. One of them, 

 who was probably the Sheikh, wore a bright-coloured turban, 

 a loose white robe, and yellow slippers, and had a large 

 curved Turkish sabre at his waist. The expression of his thin 



