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hand, which was chained to fome one of the company night 
and day’; but he very fenfibly refufed it, faying, “ Unchain 
my hands when you load and unload your camels, I can- 
not then run away from you; for tho’ you did not fhoot me, 
_ TI fhould ftarve with hunger and thirft; but keep me to the 
end of the journey as you began with me, then I cannot 
mifbehave, and lofe the reward which you fay you are to. 
give me.” | 3 : ry 
At forty minutes paft three o’clock we faw large ftratas: 
of foffile falt everywhere upon the furface of the ground... 
At five we found the body of Mahomet Towafh, on the 
{pot where he had been murdered, ftript naked, and lying’ 
on his face unburied. The wound in the back-finew of. 
his leg was apparent; he was, befides, thruft through the: 
back with a lance, and had two wounds in:the head with: 
fwords. We followed fome footfteps in the fand' to the: 
right, and there faw three other bodies, whom Idris. 
knew to be his principal fervants. Thefe, it feemed, had 
taken to their arms upon the Aga’s being firft wounded, and. 
the cowardly, treacherous: Bifhareens had perfuaded them: 
to capitulate upon promife of giving them camels and pro- 
vifion to carry them into Egypt,*after which. they had. 
murdered them. behind. thefe rocks.. 
Ar fix o’clock we alighted at Umarack, fo-called from a: 
number of rack-trees that grow there, and which feem to: 
affect a faltifh foil; at Raback and Mafuah I had feen: 
them growing in the fea. When I ordered a halt at Um- 
arack, the general cry was, to travel all night, fo that we: 
might be at a diftance from that dangerous, unlucky fpot.. 
The fight of the men murdered, and fear of the like fate, 
had. 
