£ 24 Bcdoitin Tribes of the EtLphrates. [ch, xx. 



all sorts of attentions, besides coming to dine with 

 ns in our tent this evening. I fear, however, that 

 the incident will not have improved our prospects 

 with Beteyen of getting his mare. But no matter. 

 Before o^ivins; Meshiir the revolver, Wilfrid made him 

 promise that he would never use it against Faris. 

 This Meshur readily did, for, he said, Faris and he 

 were already friends, though they had never met. 



Ghanim has been round all the camps with the 

 mares, to beg for water, and got a little here and a 

 little there, but the Anazeh seem to give themselves 

 very little trouble about carrying water with them. 

 The only person who had any quantity to spare 

 was Ibn Kardush, sheykh of the Mesekha. Others 

 had given milk or lebben, which the mares drank, 

 but they like water better. The Sleb have dis- 

 appeared from our camp, so our plan of going with 

 them has fallen through. It is very tiresome. We 

 shall now have to make a long march nearly due 

 north, to a well called Boharra, not ten miles south 

 of Tudmur, and all out of our way — but water we 

 must have to-morrow. 



Aiyril 10. — We have had a long thirsty march to- 

 day, though not altogether a dull one. 



1 am sorry to say that we did not part friends 

 with Beteyen. He was jealous, I suppose, of the 

 favour Meshur has found in our eyes, and of the 

 presents we have given him, and at parting this 

 morning, he made a sort of begging speech to ]\Ir, 

 S., who told him he ought to be ashamed of himself 



