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HOW WE PASS THE NIGHT. 
down with a shield, got up again, and ran off to the 
town, giving the alarm everywhere. 
En-Noor, as soon as the news of this aggression 
reached him, sent off a posse of people, and then 
called in the inhabitants of a neighbouring village : 
so that, when all was over, our encampment was 
surrounded by a disorderly multitude of protectors 
till day-light. 
To my tent came the confidential servant of 
En-Noor, and everybody was talking, drinking 
coffee, and making merry. After all, it was well to 
have these people, for if the thirteen robbers had 
shown ordinary courage, in our unprepared state we 
should have had a good deal of work to do, and 
might some of us have got bad sword-cuts or spear- 
thrusts. 
En-Noor, they say, is exceedingly angry about 
this attack, and has sent eleven mounted men after 
the robbers to seize their camels, which if he gets 
hold of he intends to confiscate. On Amankee 
calling on him he observed, " You, x4imankee, being 
a native of Soudan, and not a Muslim of Tripoli, are 
like the Kailouees. You can fire on these Kailouee 
robbers. Get your gun loaded, ready for any other 
occasion." 
At daylight, after lecturing my servants for not 
giving the alarm (for, with the exception of Said's 
wife, they were all so terror-stricken — literally 
struck dumb with terror — that they could not 
speak, much less cry out), I sent Amankee off at 
