ClI. XVII.] 



Ghdnim Sings. 



35 



south of it to get news. "We liave found a splendid 

 plain of rich grass, where we have stopped, — enough 

 to feed all the Anazeli camp, if they come this way, 

 for a week. Mohammed calls it Wadi Er Ghotha, 

 ^nd says there must have been an immense down- 

 pour of rain some time this year, as he has never 

 ■seen such grass before so far from the hills. Ghiiuim 

 lias been singing all to-day to a tune which ruus 

 thus : — 



March 28. — A wild blusterino; mornino- and we 

 half decided on stopping where we were, but the 

 rain held off, though it blew a hurricane all day from 

 the west. We sent Mohammed for news to Sokhne, 

 which was not more than five miles away, and 

 engaged to meet him again later at a certain pool of 

 water he said we should find in a certain wady. 

 This led to our missino; each other, for thouo-h we 

 found a pool, it was not the right pool, and we saw 

 no more of Mohammed all day. When we found 

 he did not join us, we were in no hurry to go on, 

 so Ave climbed up to the top of a tallish cliff from 

 which there was a capital view, and where we got a 

 little shelter under an old wall from the wind. In 

 front of us, and apparently about three miles off, we 

 could see the village of Sokhne, a wretched hamlet, 



D 2 



