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jackal with all their might, a good proof of the capabilities of 
these plucky dogs. 
We now set off for home across a very rugged hill, where 
the dogs were made to try some holes, outside which there 
were fresh tracks of foxes, jackals, and even of hyenas, but 
these attempts were unhappily unsuccessful. The heat, too, 
was frightful, and the dogs soon got tired on the burning 
rocks. 
On reaching the camp we recruited ourselves with a few 
hours of rest; before sunset, however, Waldburg and I 
clambered about the slopes of the valley, in which we had 
watched for jackals the previous evening; but as neither our 
efforts to rout out something with the dogs, nor our careful 
attempt to stalk an old cock partridge, which was drumming 
on a flat rock, succeeded, we had to content ourselves with 
a fine view of the mountains by the Dead Sea, which we 
obtained by climbing to the high ridge on the opposite side 
of the valley. As soon as it began to get dark we returned 
to the camp and retired early to rest, in order to prepare 
ourselves for the coming journey to the valley of the Jordan. 
On the morning of the 3rd the whole camp was astir at 
an early hour. The tents were struck, and the baggage put 
on the pack-animals. Two more hyenas had been brought 
in from Tantur, fine large specimens, which had poisoned 
themselves in the night with the same donkey’s head. 
Some Bedouins from the south-western mountains of the 
Dead Sea came into camp. They were fine manly fellows 
with noble features, muscular, sinewy, and rather dark. The 
tribe to which they belonged was wild, perfectly lawless, but 
very poor, and both their clothing and weapons were indica- 
tive of the narrow circumstances of their life. One of them, 
who was probably the Sheikh, wore a bright-coloured turban, 
a loose white robe, and yellow slippers, and had a large 
curved Turkish sabre at his waist. The expression of his thin 
