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having drank three or four diflies as he fmoaked, they laid them- 
felves down in their cloaths, upon the bare fand, and converfcd 
together till they talked themfelves to lleep, 
February 2d. The next morning, at day-break, the drivers 
began to re-load the camels : at eight o'clock the caravan was 
again in motion ; from which time till half an hour after four, they 
travelled amidft dreary hills of loofe and barren fand, where they 
faw neither man nor beaft, neither wood nor water, 
A fmall valley between the hills, from which, to their great 
annoyance, the fhifting fand was continually blown down upon 
them, was the place of their encampment ; a place entirely def- 
titute of water, but from this circumftance they felt no fort of in- 
convenience, as they had brought with them, in goat fkins, art 
ample ftore, 
February 3d. At half an hour after feven in the morning, 
they proceeded on their journey, and having emerged from the 
fand hills about two in the afternoon, were charmed with the 
fight of olive and of date trees, of large quantities of white thorn, 
and of the Spanifh broom ; yet the foil is dry and ftoney, and the 
few fields of grain which prefent themfelves here and there to the 
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