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exercise of such a long-continued labour as the 

 patient dauk carriers upon the roads of India. 



Xeither Ohmed Mahomed nor Ebin Izaak was 

 to be seen to-day, and I found that they had 

 returned during the past night to Tajourah, to 

 spend another last day with their families, leaving 

 Cassim in charge of the Kafilah. He sometimes 

 walked up to the trees under which I lay during 

 the day, to see that everything was right 

 with me. A Bedouin, who had kept close to 

 me the entire day, had placed himself at the 

 entrance of my hut when I retired; and Zaido 

 told me he was one of the escort who had sworn 

 to Izaak not to let me go out of his sight, upon the 

 promise of receiving a cloth from his son in 

 Abasha. As he was a very superior-looking man, 

 at least forty years of age, very quiet, and less 

 importunate for trifles than the rest of his country- 

 men, I thanked him, as well as I could, for his 

 attention, and gave him a cotton handkerchief. 



After looking suspiciously to the right and 

 left, creeping a little way into my hut he secured 

 the gift in a dirty rag to the handle of his shield, 

 which he hung up in my hut to be taken care of, by 

 signs intimating that it would rain, and also that 

 he was my very good friend, insisting at the same 

 time, that I should write his name, Garahmee, 

 down in my note-book. He then turned away to 

 get some boiled rice with Zaido and Allee, whilst I 



