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BEDOIN ENCAMPMENT. 121
rah's have remained in quiet subjection to the Pacha.*
We arrived at our encampment at about half past
six, and found our carvan had preceded us only a few
minutes. Hungry and tired as we were, we had to
wait till a late hour for our dinner.
Jan. 6. This morning Tueileb gave us an invitation
to accompany him to his encampment, which lay but
a short distance off our direct route, and which we
could reach by a little past noon. We felt a curiosity
to spend one night in a Bedoin encampment, and as
a matter of course, accepted the invitation. He put
on the new scarlet dress we had presented him at Cairo,
his new red morocco boots, and fixed up his turban
with peculiar care. These new fineries gave him a
dashy and splendid appearance. He soon gave us to
understand that we were to hurry on with him and
leave our loaded camels to follow at leisure. Our
dromedaries trotted on with life, as though they were
familiarly acquainted with the way and place we were
approaching. At about 10 o'clock, we passed a burial
gi ound, very similar in appearance to the one we saw
yesterday. At about twelve, we passed a woman
and two small boys tending a flock of goats. This was
the first thing of the kind we had seen since we left
Cairo. After passing for some miles through a val-
ley with high broken mountains on either side,
we at length turned to the left into Waddy Sheik.
We had passed up this valley but a few rods, when
we saw a long range of black tents directly in front
of us. The sheik pointed to these as the tents of his
people, and motioned for us to follow him in a line.
*Robins<m.
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rah's have remained in quiet subjection to the Pacha.*
We arrived at our encampment at about half past
six, and found our carvan had preceded us only a few
minutes. Hungry and tired as we were, we had to
wait till a late hour for our dinner.
Jan. 6. This morning Tueileb gave us an invitation
to accompany him to his encampment, which lay but
a short distance off our direct route, and which we
could reach by a little past noon. We felt a curiosity
to spend one night in a Bedoin encampment, and as
a matter of course, accepted the invitation. He put
on the new scarlet dress we had presented him at Cairo,
his new red morocco boots, and fixed up his turban
with peculiar care. These new fineries gave him a
dashy and splendid appearance. He soon gave us to
understand that we were to hurry on with him and
leave our loaded camels to follow at leisure. Our
dromedaries trotted on with life, as though they were
familiarly acquainted with the way and place we were
approaching. At about 10 o'clock, we passed a burial
gi ound, very similar in appearance to the one we saw
yesterday. At about twelve, we passed a woman
and two small boys tending a flock of goats. This was
the first thing of the kind we had seen since we left
Cairo. After passing for some miles through a val-
ley with high broken mountains on either side,
we at length turned to the left into Waddy Sheik.
We had passed up this valley but a few rods, when
we saw a long range of black tents directly in front
of us. The sheik pointed to these as the tents of his
people, and motioned for us to follow him in a line.
*Robins<m.
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