112 A SOFT BED. 



I thought was, that it was too convenient, and 

 before Garahmee and Moosa could well choose their 

 positions on each side of me, some half dozen 

 people of the Kafilah also came and took up their 

 quarters in the cave. Garahmee would have had me 

 retire to another and a better place, which he said 

 he knew, and which was but a little beyond a turn 

 in the course of the ravine, but as my boots were 

 off, and I had commenced a conversation with such 

 of the people of the Kafilah, who, like myself, 

 understood a little Arabic, I determined to stay 

 where I was, at which he went away, seem- 

 ingly much displeased. Like Ibrahim Shaitan, 

 however, under similar circumstances, he returned 

 very soon, and, apparently, we were as good friends 

 as before. 



It is rather difficult to find a comfortable position 

 when reposing upon loose uneven rock, but on read- 

 ing over my notes under the date of to-day, I find 

 that to save time and to secure comfort under 

 similar circumstances again, I had noted down how 

 to arrange things so as to obtain a tolerably easy bed. 

 I remark, sagely enough, that I must not expect the 

 pleasures of easy repose upon a couch which had 

 the hard rock for a cushion, and only large stones 

 for pillows, but that to make my resting-place as 

 comfortable as it could be, I had placed my head 

 resting between two large stones, employing another 

 as a pillow, which I put under the arm of the side I 

 lay upon, and one also behind the bend of my 



