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were our opponents. Garahmee, Moosa Gra, and 

 Adam Burrah, spear and shield in hand, leaped 

 round and round, yelling with every bound, and 

 then with lesser jumps, seemed to trample upon the 

 body of some fallen foe. Whilst jumping in this 

 manner, Adam Burrah fell down, and rolling over 

 and over, was very much bruised. 



Ohmed Mahomed took measures in the first place 

 to conciliate, if possible, the opposite party, and 

 some half-bloods of the tribe among our Kafilah 

 went for the purpose of effecting a treaty, but were 

 unsuccessful, and on their return, they were followed 

 by a cloud of the enemy, who now seemed to cover 

 the whole further side of the valley. All this 

 time I had kept out of sight at the express desire 

 of Ohmed Mahomed; Zaido, Allee, and myself 

 being left with the stores, every other member 

 of the Kafilah, after the prayers had ended, 

 having joined the Hy Soumaulee, were now sitting 

 together in a large semicircle on a level spot 

 that occurred upon the slope of the hill. I was 

 anxiously watching the progress of events ; for being 

 some hundreds of yards from the men of the Kafilah 

 I expected for a certainty being cut off by some rush 

 of the whooping Bedouins, who, fast advancing, I 

 could now see with my glass, from the inglorious 

 position assigned to me ; their bright spear-heads 

 glistening in the sun, over the tops of the low jungle 

 through which they were passing. At length they 

 approached far too near to be pleasant to the 



