FIGHT IN CAMP 
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the idea of going to the Webbi Shebeyli (Leopard River) 
during the rainy season. 
Complaints were now made that the ghee was all bad, 
but knowing that that was only said to persuade me to buy 
more, I told my headman that that was his look-out, as he 
should have tasted it before he bought such a quantity. I 
liked to see the camels driven into the zareba every night ; 
the sight was picturesque in the extreme. And when they 
all lay down surrounded by the camp-fires, which shed a 
HERDING UP THE CAMELS FOR AN ONWARD MARCH. 
bright yellow glow upon them, and the little crowds of 
natives clustered round each fire, clad in their wLite tobes^ the 
effect was very striking, and made me wish I had brought 
my paint-box with me, although I could have done but poor 
justice to such a scene. 
That night’s proceedings were enlivened by a fight 
between the cook s boy and a boy from the other caravan, 
which ended with many boxes on their ears and kicks on 
their behinds. : 
