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and he lost condition day by day. At last he determined to go 
and see Ba Dahiya. When he went to him, Ba Dahiya just 
looked at him and said, “Bring me a bit of camel’s liver.” A 
piece of the liver was brought. He took the liver, tied it to a 
ong thread, and said to the Bedouin, “Swallow it.” The sick 
man swallowed the piece, but Ba Dahiya retained the end of the 
thread in his hand. He let the liver remain for a quarter of an 
hour in the sick man’s inside, and then hauled it up. The ticks 
were sticking to the bit of liver, and the sick man gradually re- 
covered his health. 
@ Dahiya was asked why he had not asked for a piece of 
the liver of some other animal. He said, “‘ When ticks scent the 
odour of a camel, they loose their hold on other animals and make 
towards it. It struck me that the odour of a camel could draw 
out the ticks from his stomach.” 
These are the particulars of the story of the Physician, and 
it is, I swear, a true story and happened in Qaydin, the capital 
of Shaykh Sa‘id bin ‘Isa, in the Wadi of Do‘an in Hazramaut. 
XVII. THE INGENUITY OF WOMEN. 
There was a man that dwelt in the town of Razdah the chief 
town of the Din tribe, and he had a beauteous daughter. Said he 
to himself, “ I will never marry my daughter except to a man who 
will solve three questions that I put him: What is the strongest 
thing? What is the moistest thing ? and What is the nicest thing? 
There came one asking the damsel inmarriage. Said the father, 
“I will not give thee my daughter, except thou reply to my three 
questions” ; and he put them, granting the youth a respite of three 
days in which to answer them. The youth departed. Hecould find 
no answer to the three questions. Then came another to woo the 
maid, and the father spoke to him as he had spoken to the first. 
Now the girl got a glimpse of this youth and he pleased her. She 
said to her negress, “Go to So and So, and ask him what my 
father said.” The negress went to the youth and said, ” My 
e youth took the note, and on the appointed day sie" 
sented himself. Said the father, “Ha! this is the appoin 
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strongest is the horse; that which is moistest 1s the south wind; 
