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with his tears. The tents have been pitched in a. 

 wady below the viUage, and we have spent a de- 

 lightful day showing to understanding eyes our 

 property in camels, asses, and camp furniture, and 

 feasting our eyes on the two lovely mares which 

 are now to relieve the hard-worked Hao-ar and 



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Tamarisk. A new donkey has been bought for 

 Mr. S. for five pounds, and the zaptiehs have 

 been dismissed. Mohammed has brousjlit a lono;- 

 legged Anazeh with him who turned up this 

 morning at Tudmur, and who is to take us to 

 Jedaan to-morrow. Fortunately Arak is not much 

 out of our road to him. The man, whose name is 

 Jazzer, is as black as a negro, but his features are 

 purely Semitic, and according to Mohammed his 

 ■colour is only due to the sun ; as to blood he is 

 "asil." Ghanim has been delighting us all with 

 his music, but he and an Armenian Mr. S. has 

 brought with him, have been fighting already over 

 the new mares. Each of course wants to have the 

 custody of them. There are three Christians now 

 in our camp, for the Consul, besides the Armenian 

 groom Simon, has brought a Christian servant with 

 him, and these Avith Hanna have laid their heads 

 together, as people of the same race or religion al- 

 ways do in the East when they find themselves in a 

 majority, to bully Ghanim, They came this evening 

 with a tale against Ghanim of tobacco stolen by 

 him out of Wilfrid's bag, but we have taken his 

 part, and reminded them that he is not our servant, 



