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quarrelling and threatening one another's lives. All 

 these little affairs had to be enquired into and dealt with 

 during the mid-day " rest." Correction had to be ad- 

 ministered usually in the form of the " korbag," laid 

 on with no sparing hand by a companion of the delin- 

 quent. But they were accustomed to this, and a more 

 effective form of punishment, reserved for special 

 occasions, was to administer a kick with precision and 

 power as though one were " placing " a goal at Rugby 

 football. This not only hurt and surprised, but had the 

 additional advantages of wounding the dignity of the 

 kicked, and of bearing gratifying results to the kicker. 

 Catering for ourselves and our followers also had to be 

 attended to, and this sort of conversation would often 

 ensue : " Hassan, why have we no eggs in this camp 

 when there is a village quite close ? " " Ah, effendi, dey 

 no buy (sell) eggs in dis billage, all dee people want to 

 make dee chickens." 



To sleep during the mid-day rest was somewhat 

 difficult. The temperature in the shade ranged from 

 100 to 115 Fahrenheit during the hot hours. There 

 were also innumerable insects of various sorts in every 

 camp. Ante of several kinds ran over us and bit us in 

 the day time as well as at night. There were mosquitoes, 

 sand flies and small biting beetles in most places, while 



