SB6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



hand, which was chained to fome one of the company night 

 and day ; but he very fenfibly refufed it, faying, " Unchain 

 my hands when you load and unload your camels, I can- 

 not then run away from you ; for tho' you did not fhoot me, 

 I ihould itarve with hunger and thirft ; but keep me to the 

 end of the journey as you began with me, then I cannot 

 mifbehave, and lofe the reward which you fay you are to 

 give me." 



At forty minutes paft three o'clock we faw large ftratas 

 of fofhle fait everywhere upon the furl-ace of the ground. 

 At five we found the body of Mahomet Towafh, on the 

 fpot where he had been murdered, ftript naked, and lying 

 on his face unburied. The wound in the back-fmew of 

 his leg was apparent ; he was, befides, thruft through the 

 back with a lance, and had two wounds in the head with 

 fwords. We followed fome footlleps in the fand to the 

 right, and there faw three other bodies, whom Idris 

 knew to be his principal fervants. Thefe, it feemed, had 

 taken to their arms upon the Aga's being firft wounded, and 

 the cowardly, treacherous Bifliareens had perfuadcd them 

 to capitulate upon promife of givmg them camels and pro- 

 vifion to carry them into Egypt, after which they had 

 murdered them behind thefe rocks. 



At fix o'clock we alighted at Umarack, fo called from a 

 number of rack- trees that grow there, and which feem to 

 afifecfl a faltifti foil; at Raback and Mafuah I had fcen 

 them growing in the fea. When I ordered a halt at Um- 

 arack, the general cry was, to travel all night, fo that we 

 might be at a diftance from that dangerous, unlucky fpot. 

 The fight of the men murdered, and fear of the like fate, 



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