CH. XXI.] March 2mder a Bummjr Suji. 



hot and they arc making forced marches. A good 

 many lambs are already dead, and they have given 

 us one which, as we are short of provisions, we are 

 glad enough to take. When the shepherds see that 

 a lamb can go no farther they cut its throat, and 

 then the meat is lawful eating, though it would 

 not be so if the animal had died of its own 

 accord. 



We should hardly have found the well if it had 

 not been for the Eoala, as it lay in a very unlikely 

 place and, not having been used this year, had no 

 tracks leading to it. It is very deep, sixty feet, as 

 we measured by the rope used; but the water is 

 sweet and good. Its name is Busep-i. All the 

 beasts, camels as well as mares, drank copiously, 

 my mare, the most abstemious, not being content 

 with less than four buckets full. The Welled Ali 

 shepherds have insisted on keeping company with 

 us, in the lioj^e of getting through the Roiila country 

 under our protection ; but their attempt to go 

 through at all is to me inexplicable. They have 

 with them, besides the sheep, fifteen camels and a 

 nice looking mare and foal, all lawful prize of 

 war ! 



April 13. — No abatement of the heat. The 

 sheep go with their tongues hanging out, poor 

 things, and their owners have shorn some of them 

 in the hopes of saving them. Soon after Ave started, 

 we passed between two high hills, Keukle lo the 

 right and Rummakh to the left. The Koiila told 



