U 8 Bedouin Tribes of the EtipJirates. [en. xx. 



can hear the war .sono; chanted in unison. The 

 Gomussa chant is as follows : 



V V V 



*r -K— • — ^^*— ^— •— :*- 



" " 1* fk 



iizt 



V-F=i£=S^ 



W^0—^-» 



t=it^: 



:^ i^t?^ 



or sometimes a third lower 





V V V V V 





tliat of the Moayaja major instead of minor 



ESE 



v.__vv_^ V ^ V. 



zhz 



-Ji~i^ 



=•-?- 



-^v 



fz:*: 



j^=?sr>-f- 



^S^ 



and that of the Welled Ali less melodious 



-8— ^-^— g*- 





:t?=5£ 



or thus 





The rhythm of the two first chants, the Gomussa 

 and Moayaja, is extremely fine ; that of the third, 

 which I cannot write otherwise than by seven 

 quavers in the bar, produces an odd effect, and 

 sounds incomplete. 



A'pril 9. — Something very like a panic has seized 

 the Gomussa camp. The day had hardly begun to 



