242 Bcdcmhi Tribes of the Eiiphrates. [ch. xxvir. 



sion five lives were claimed, because five men of the 

 Eotila had talvcii part in killing ]\Iitbakli. 



The tales of throat-cutting told by Mr. Palgrave 

 and others may be true of the tribes he visited, but 

 are not true of the Auazeli or Shammar. The re- 

 port of j^risoners having been thus murdered by the 

 Eoala, which reached us at Aleppo, turned out on 

 investigation to be entirely unfounded, and the 

 event justified the disbelief in them at the time l)y 

 all who knew the Bedouins. 



