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vening country in his mind, and then depicting a 

 transcript readily upon the sand, to convey at once 

 a correct idea of the whole to a stranger. 



Towards evening, all who had been, during the 

 heat of the day, basking and sleeping under the 

 cool shade of the bushes, now took up their wooden 

 pillows, and with mats hanging down from their 

 shoulders, proceeded to the camp, within the limits 

 of which it is usual for all to sleep. 



April 21st. — On our starting this morning, I 

 again offered thirty dollars to induce the Hy Sou- 

 maulee to accompany me to Owssa, as Ohmed 

 Medina said, if they consented, he would also go 

 with us. I received the usual pantomimic reply of 

 pointing first to their knives, and then to their 

 throats, with an expressive twist of their features 

 that said how sorry they should be for such a mis- 

 fortune to befall us , and Garahmee, to make the 

 scene still more impressive, holding his spear by its 

 lower end, and extending it at arm's length, pointed 

 to the tops of all the ridges around, as he slowly 

 moved on his heel, and repeated the alarm cry of 

 " Ko ! ko ! ko !" telling me as plainly as possible, 

 that our advance would be the signal for the whole 

 country to be up in arms. I told Ohmed Medina 

 over and over again, that I might have accompanied 

 him and Garahmee from Arabderah, but he swore 

 by the Prophet and the name of Allah that it was 

 quite impossible, for if I had it would have occa- 

 sioned the death of the whole party. As it was, 



