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day*, but the camels were all fhe-camels ; ; they are favourite 
camels of Shekh Seide; we drove them fofthy ; the two you 
faw at the tents are anes ; befides there-were fome others 
unfound ; there were alfo women and children.” Where 
did that party, and their camels, go to from this? and what 
number of men was there with them?” “ There were about 
three hundred camels of all forts, and about ‘thirty men, 
all of them fervants; fome of them had one lance, and 
fome of them two; they had no fhields or other arms.” 
“ What did you intend laft night to do with my camels?” 
“ J intended to have carried them, with the women and 
child, to join the party at the Nile.” ‘“ What muft have 
become of me in that cafe? we muft have died?’ He did — 
not anfwer. “ Take care, faid I, the thing is now over, and 
you are in my hands; take care what you fay.” “ Why, 
certainly, fays he, you muft have died, you could not live, 
you could not go anywhere elfe.” “If another party had 
found us here, in that cafe would they haveflainus?” He 
hefitated a little, then, as if he recollected himfelf, faid, “Yes, 
furely, they murdered the Aga, and would murder any 
body that had not a Bifhareen with them.” A violent cry 
of condemnation immediately followed. “ Now attend and 
underftand me diftin@tly, faid I, for upon thefe two que- 
ftions hangs your life: Do you know of any party of 
Bifhareen who are foon to pafs here, or any wells to the 
north, and in what number? and have you fent any 
intelligence fince laft night you faw us here * He anfwer- 
-ed, with more readinefs than ufual, “We have fent nobody 
anywnere ; . 
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* Tt is not here to be underftood that the Arab defcribed the day by the 5th, but aad an. 
interval of time which we knew correfponded to the 5th. 
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