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purpose, laid themselves open to my suspicion ; but 

 Garahmee, with ready thought, on my telling 

 Moosa a second time to go, volunteered to be the 

 bearer of the message himself, and retiring, relieved 

 me of his presence, and himself of the unpleasant 

 feeling which must have arisen in his mind on 

 having been so completely foiled, and seeing, 

 besides, that I was perfectly aware of his intentions. 

 Aleex' Shaitan was certainly the most unpleasant 

 halting-place I staid at during my whole march, for 

 the natural suspicion excited of plots being regu- 

 larly formed for my assassination, made me not feel 

 very comfortable, especially when, on retiring for 

 the night, I found that Ohmed Mahomed, Zaido, and 

 Allee, who generally slept around me, had left the 

 camp to return to the precipice of Muyah, to bring 

 up some camels that had been left there during the 

 morning's march, unable to come on with the rest 

 of the Kafilah. The larger boxes with which these 

 camels were loaded had been obliged to be taken 

 off and carried, with a great deal of labour, by men 

 down the narrow and winding descents which 

 occurred on the road. I determined not to sleep 

 until their return, and sat in my hut eating some 

 very hard sea-biscuit, indulging occasionally in long- 

 pulls at my water-skin, the contents of which 

 reminded me exactly of the muddy streams that in 

 very rainy weather flows through the gutters of our 

 streets at home. Having finished my light supper, 

 I sat at the upper end of my box fortalice, reso- 



