ENEMIES OF THE NIGHT. 



peace having at last withdrawn, we again close our eyes, 

 trusting that they may soon remain so of their own accord ; 

 but vain was the hope, for two cats appear on the scene, and 

 with their hideous cries, enough almost to awake the dead, 

 scamper in and out amongst the iron piles until driven 

 away by the shouts of Emanuel, who, with the soldiers, 

 is keeping watch over our stores. Now surely there will 

 be a little peace we think. Bah ! donkeys bray in chorus ; 

 children screech ; fish, that from the splashing noise they 

 make one would imagine must be the size of sharks, 

 playfully amuse themselves by trying how high they 

 can leap out of the water ; and the short intervals are 

 well filled up by the most musical of crickets, if judged 

 by their power of producing sound. 



Yet another disturber of the would-be sleeper's rest 

 arrives unexpectedly, and a no less important one than 

 the moon, which shines in our faces with an intensity 

 that can only be fully appreciated in the East and who 

 could be expected to sleep ! Some of our party, how- 

 ever, are above being affected by such, to them, trifles, 

 as one by one they pass into that state in which sound 

 and light remain unnoticed, and when nasal music on 

 their own account proves that their minds are for the \ 

 time at rest. But there is one left to observe the night ' 

 give place to the day, and to have full warning of it by 

 the crowing of innumerable cocks around him, and such 

 is his unpleasant experience of a first night in Upper 



