cii. XXI.] The Rodla arc Generous. 135 



of a good evening's meal. The site of a Bedouin 

 camp, if by any chance they have happened to 

 occupy the same ground more than two nights, is 

 generally eaten as bare as a board, and unexpected 

 guests suffer in consequence. We have killed a 

 centipede in the tent quite six inches long. Glianim 

 calls it "OmArba oarham" (the "mother of forty- 

 four"), alluding to its legs. A dozen or so of the 

 Koclla have come to our camp from their own, 

 which they tell us is close by, just over the brow 

 of a low hill. They are in high delight at the suc- 

 cess of their ghazii, for Ibn ShaaUn came back 

 yesterday, and to-day they have been dividing the 

 spoils. 



While we were entertaining them with coffee, 

 who should come up but the Welled Ali shepherds. 

 The chief man of our new guests, one Abu Ghid- 

 deli,'" asked who they were and whether the sheep 

 were ours. " They have followed us," wc said, " but 

 they are not ours ; we do not interfere." We ex- 

 pected an instant raid to follow, for indeed the 

 Roala had every right to the prize ; but Abu Gliid- 

 deli only laughed. "31a ikhdlif" he said, " nakhiia 

 shebdat" (" Never mind, we have all had enough"). 

 So here they are still unmolested. 



Ghanim has returned. The first words Sotamm 

 said to him, when he heard who we were and whence 

 we had come, were " Have they brought my wife 



* Abu Ghiddeli is the owner of the best strain of Maneghi 

 blood known, better even than Ibn Sbeyel's. 



