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sailed, and then saving themselves any farther 

 trouble, by returning immediately to Taj our ah. 

 As has been observed, I gave Cassim only four, and 

 to Ibrahim I presented three dollars, observing to the 

 latter, that I had given him more than the extra 

 dollar Cassim had received, in beads, needles, 

 buttons, and matches; for of all the natives, 

 Bedouin, or townspeople, Ibrahim was the most 

 bothering, and greedy in begging everything he 

 could set his eyes upon. When he could obtain 

 nothing else, he asked for medicine, and if I had 

 taken him at his word, and done him full justice, I 

 think I could not have done less than have seized 

 this opportunity of poisoning him, and so have 

 sent him to that place from whence he derived his 

 very unamiable " nom de guerre" among his own 

 countrymen, of " Shaitan." 



Our grief at parting, not being of that excessive 

 kind that would interfere with any opportunities I 

 had of making observations on the people I was 

 amongst, as soon as they were gone I had my mat 

 spread again under the trees, and was soon sur- 

 rounded by others, who were retreating from the 

 hot sun to the same friendly shelter. 



Some women also came down from among the 

 hills with small skins of clotted milk, which they 

 gladly exchanged for needles. The younger ones 

 are very beautiful girls, but of exceedingly slender 

 form, reminding me strongly of the appearance of 

 the Indian girls in Calcutta, and strikingly 



