250 WIDB AND inhospitable DESERTS. jj 
having forsaken them as well as the care of mV ® 
of my instraraents, . 
I looked upon this loss with the greatest in 
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as if they had not belonged to mo, and push- 
my horse began now to tremble under me, nnd y jj, 
the strongest of the whole caravan. We proceede 
despair. When I endeavoured to encourage 
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the party to increase his pace, he answered me 
steadily at me, and by putting his fore finger j 
to indicate the great thirst by which he was 
1 was reproaching our conducting officers for 
tion, which had occasioned this want of wate'> 
cased themselves by alleging the mulin)^ 
and besides, added they, “ Do we not suffer ,is ’ 
Our fate was the more shocking, as every on® 
sensible of the impossibility of supporting the 
the place where we were to meet with water 
ai about four in the evening, I had my turn and 
witli thirst and fatigue. 
Exicmdcd without consciousness on the / 
middle of the desert, left only with four or fit, 
of whom had dropped at the same moment ..a 
beef/ 
and all without any means of assisting me, 
knew not where to find water, and, if they pffj 
it, had not strength to fetch it, I should h®''^ );if 
with them on the spot, if Providence, by ,y 
miracle, had not preserved us. 1,3d y 
Half an hour had already elapsed since 1 ^ 
senseless to the ground, (as I have since oeeo ^ 
at some distance, a considerable caravan, ot y' 
ihousaud souls, was seen advancing. It was e’, 
rection of a marebout or saint called Sidi Ala* 
.sent by the Sultan to Ttemsen or Tremeccn. ‘ yy-' 
this distre.ssed situation, he oi'dered some skuis , pi /■ 
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be thrown over us. After I bad received sc'® 
over my face and hands, I recovered my senses> 
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eyes. 
and looked 
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around me, without 
discern any body. At last, however, I 
seven or eight sherifs and fakeers, who ,, , 
assisl.ance, and shewed mo much kiadne*=i”j,|,cit ^ 
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vovki-ed to speak to them, but an invinci 
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