S8 Bedo7iin Tribes of the Euphrates, [en. \ix. 



gaging. It was tied up, as the custom is, by a rope 

 round the neck, while its mother was away grazing, 

 and neighed continually. It was very tame, how- 

 ever, and let me stroke it, and sniffed at my pockets, 

 as if it knew that there mi2;ht be some suo-ar there. 

 Ali showed us his mare, (not the foal's mother,) a dark 

 chestnut, Abeyeh Sherrak, a strong but rather plain 

 animal, which would pass as a "handsome cob " in 

 England. Ferhdn's horse pleased us better, a three- 

 year-old, Hadban IMshetib, which I preferred infi- 

 nitely to Jedaan's Kehilan Akliras. 



The Ibn Hedeb were very anxious to retain us 

 with them, but we could not risk offending Jedaan, 

 by leaving him without saying goodbye ; so we have 

 promised to come again, and rode home to the 

 Wady-el-Helbe in a storm of Jiail and rain. 



A'pril G. — Lightning in the night and a threaten- 

 \\\<i of rain. Jedaan came to our tent the first 

 thing this morning, and talked more openly than 

 he has yet done ; liut I do not like iiim. He seems 

 a selfish man, entirely occupied with his own 

 schemes and ambitions, and lets one see many a 

 little meanness, which Ijctter breeding would have 

 concealed. The Seljaa, I fancy, do not like him 

 either ; but they iwed him, for since Suliman-ibn- 

 Mershid's death they are without a leader, while 

 Jedaan has military genius. His heart, all the same, 

 is not in the war, and it is a curious trait of 

 manners that last winter, while the war was at its 

 height, Jedaan, the leader of the Sebaa, should have 



