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CHAPTER XXIV. 



Delay in giving up the recovered stores. — Interview with father of 

 Mahomed Allee. — Accompany him to a kraal. — Entertain- 

 ment there. — Condition of the stores. — Murder in our camp. — 

 Occupation of Kafilah people during long halts.- — Game of 

 gubertah. — Muditu visitors. — Expected attack. — Bedouins feast- 

 ing. — Portion of entrail around the neck of a Bedouin, not for 

 ornament, but use. — Amusements. 



The name of our present halting place was Hiero 

 Murroo ; and the third day of our stay there arrived, 

 but no signs of any more boxes coming, nor could 

 Ohmed Mahomed, when applied to, account for 

 their non-appearance. Generally, the answer to my 

 inquiries was — in the morning, he would promise 

 that they would arrive before evening ; and in the 

 evening, he would be quite certain they would come 

 in during the night. I thought, at last, there was 

 no intention of giving up the boxes at all ; and as I 

 saw Ohmed Mahomed very friendly indeed with the 

 principal man of the Bedouin kraal, where the pro- 

 perty lay, accompanying him backwards and for- 

 wards several times, I at length suspected that he 

 was endeavouring to get the boxes and their con- 

 tents for his own use. The blame of such a dishonest 

 action when discovered, he was well aware could be 



