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camels gain on me fo much in my ftate of lamenefs, that it- 
was with fome difficulty I could. overtake them. 
Tue effect this ftupendous fight had upon Idris was to, 
fet him to his prayers, indeed rather to his charms; for,, 
befides the name of God and Mahomet, all the reft of the. 
words were mere gibberifh and nonfenfe. This created'a 
violent altercation between him and I{mael the Turk, who. 
abufed him for not praying in.the words of the Koran, main- 
taining, with apparent great wifdom at the fame time, that. 
nobody had charms to ftop thefe moving fae but the in-. 
habitants, of Arabia Deferta._ 
Tue Arabs to whom this inhofpitable fpot belongs are- 
the Adelaia. They, too, are Jaheleen, or Arabs of Beni Ko- 
reifh. They are faid to be a harmlefs race; and todo no » 
hurt to the caravans they meet; yet I very much doubt, 
had we fallen in with them they would not have deferved: 
the good name that was given them. We went very flow- 
ly to-day, our feet being fore and greatly fwelled. The 
whole of our company were much difheartened, (except 
Idris) and imagined that they were advancing into- whirls. 
winds of moving fand, from which they fhould never be: 
able to extricate themfelves; but-before four o’clock in the. 
afternoon thefe phantoms of the plain had all of them. 
fallen to the ground and difappeared. In the evening we 
came to Waadi Dimokea, where we pafled the night, muclt. 
difheartened, and our fear more increafed, when we found, | 
upon wakening in the morning, that one fide was perfectly — 
buried in ale fand that the wind had blown above us in, 
the n nigh 
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