1 hut I do not know what kind it was. The iioxt day I conked
2 it with Hiv rice, for my camel driver put it into my pot without
3 my knowledge. .
4 To deceive the women, we told them that we were coming
5 from Bagdad arid going to Damascus, and after having pro¬
6 vided ourselves with water, we retraced our stops, but only
7 to make Jinn believe so; for we had lmrdly got out -of
8 their sight, when we struck into an opposite direction, and
9 marched the whole night, for fear of being overtaken by their
10 husbands. On the eleventh day, we arrived at Qtioiso, a
11 village where we rested for one day, waiting for the escort froni
12 Hit, which was to bring us to the hanks of the Euphrates. On
13 the journey, I was told bow the Arabs of' the desert, heal.their
14 wounds. They make a hole in the ground, in the form of »
15 grave, which they he.it with tire, the patient is placed therein,
16 and covered, and he remains there until he is either cured or
17 djes, a matter which take but a very' short time to decide. In
18 the case of death, they have only to fill up die grave with earth ;
19 while, if the patien. recover, he lias to mount his camel and meet
20 the enemy* Their wound., are either spear-thrusts, or sword-cuts,
21 as they very seldom use guns in the desert.
22 The caution with which the cainel-drivers carried us through
23 the desert is not to he described. On the third or fourth
24 day, on our arrival at the wells, in order to give water to
25 the ennuis, and to fill our leather-bugs, tlie most sharp-sighted
26 among them placer! himself on an elevation, to ascertain whether
27 there were any men discernible in the distance. If they found
28 embers or ashes, they examined the place sti wtly. The excrement
29 of the camels also underwent a scrutiny us to whether it was new
30 or old, which way the animals passed, &c. We were brought
31 from the banks of the Euphrates into Hit, as they told us that
32 the i>lnce vc were in was not perfectly secure. The governor
33 ordered ns to appear before him, and lie demanded a certain sum
34 from the two Armenians, our fellow travellers, but not from us
35 nor the pilgrims, as we were provided with a letter of recoin
36 ii < ndatiori from the Dasha of Damascus to Dohud Trisha of