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a collection of camels before ; and many a wish was 

 expressed by my Hy Soumanlee escort, that the 

 Gallas might come down with the intention of 

 attacking us, and then they said, the Ahkeem 

 should see they were " Cot tarn," like the English. 



My sleepiness I found was not altogether the 

 effect of fatigue, for I had not long retreated to my 

 hut before a giddiness and a sense of sliding out 

 of all consciousness, roused me with a kind of 

 alarm, to the thought that some sun stroke or 

 apoplectic fit might be approaching. I called out 

 right lustily for Zaido, Allee, and water, as if there 

 were a fire in my hut, and on their arrival, bearing 

 the distended black hair skin bags upon their 

 shoulders, they looked all in a hurry, as if to ask 

 where it was ; I, however, turned back the collar of 

 my frock, and holding on by a spear, held my head 

 down for them to give me the full benefit of a 

 shower bath. To do which effectually they 

 mounted on the top of the boxes, and with two 

 Bedouin assistant surgeons to help them, let fall 

 a gradually descending stream upon my head, 

 which quite relieved me from all the unpleasant 

 sensations that had occasioned my resorting to the 

 remedy. 



During the day a heavy thunder storm broke 

 along the height, and a considerable fall of rain 

 soon filled the cooking pots, which were hastily 

 put out on all sides to catch the fresh cool water. 

 The squall did not last long, but it completely 



