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Hdnna tells us tlkat wlien lie brouo-lit them to the 

 tent Jeditan bade him hide them, lest the others 

 should see what we had given, and he be obliged to 

 part with some of them. How different to Faris, 

 who gave all away with a perfectly open hand ! 

 When he came to see us afterwards in our own tent, 

 he said little and went away suddenly. Either he 

 is pre-occupied, or he has had his head turned by his 

 fortune, — one has known people in Europe quite un- 

 bearable for some months after succeeding? to a 

 fortune, or a title, or simply after marriage. Dinner 

 was given us in our own tent, lamb and kemeyes, 

 lebben and dates. The water is very muddy but 

 quite sweet. It comes from some pools of rain-water 

 in the neighbourhood, and rain-water is always good. 



In the evening, we received visits from Turki 

 Jedaan's only son, a loutish fellow unworthy of his 

 father's reputation, and from a certain Faris-ibn- 

 Meziad, Sheykh of the Mesenneh, whose blood, Mo- 

 hammed tells us, is the bluest in all Arabia. Then, 

 before going to bed, we handed Mohammed the 

 twenty mejidies we had promised should be his the 

 day we saw Jedaan. " He is not worth it," we 

 said, " after all ; but never mind." 



April 5. — The Anazeh are on their way north, 

 or rather north-west, and never stay more than a 

 couple of nights in the same place, so this morning 

 the tents were struck, Jedaan waiting out of compli- 

 ment to us to do so till ours were down. By a couple 

 of hours after sunrise everybody was on the march, 



