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CHAPTER XVIII. 



Staying at Barradudda. — Milk diet. — Wound myself by accidental 

 discharge of gun. — Bedouin skirmish. — Mode of warfare among 

 Dankalli. — Compensation for wounds and injured property. — 

 Peace re-established. 



During the evening of our first day's halt at 

 Barradudda, a party of the women of Herhowlee 

 came into camp, bearing upon their loins, in the 

 usual fashion, large skins of milk. They had 

 followed the Kafilah, upon hearing that we had 

 halted at so short a distance. I came in for a 

 share of their delicious burden, and certainly 

 among the many discomforts of a wandering desert 

 life, the constant supply of rich sweet curdled 

 milk, which forms the principal food of the natives, 

 compensates somewhat for the compulsatory absti- 

 nence of an educated stomach, from the cooked 

 viands, and other creature comforts attendant upon 

 civilization. One woman, for a handful of tobacco, 

 brought me a kid skin, containing about a quart 

 of camel's milk. This is of a very different 

 character, to that of cattle, sheep, or goats, and 

 as it never affords any cream, is never mixed with 



