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A BEDOUIN WHO
stay, some pieces of bitumen were picked up on the
shore, justifying the name formerly given, of As-
plialtic Sea.
On our return, the weather was extremely hot.
After we had journeyed three or four hours with-
out finding any water, we were induced to go a lit-
tle out of our way to an Arab village belonging to
our friends the Bedouins, in the hope of procuring
something to assuage our burning thirst. They
hospitably furnished us with, some bad water and
some sour camel's milk, so old that it was all but
putrid, which, notwithstanding, our thirst and hun-
ger rendered drinkable. As every Arab who does
you the most trifling service, such, for example, as
merely dipping up and handing you a cup of water,
invariably expects a reward (bueksheesh, i. e. a pre-
sent) for it, we, as usual, offered pay. I do not re-
member how much was offered, but I think about
as much as we should have given in the United
States for the same quantity of good sweet milk.
A respectable-looking old man with a white beard,
to whom the money was presented, declined it with
dignity, and, as I thought, with a very slight ex-
pression of displeasure. I was surprised and de-
lighted. "Here, at last," I said to myself, "is an
Arab who is above receiving bueksheesh." We
A BEDOUIN WHO
stay, some pieces of bitumen were picked up on the
shore, justifying the name formerly given, of As-
plialtic Sea.
On our return, the weather was extremely hot.
After we had journeyed three or four hours with-
out finding any water, we were induced to go a lit-
tle out of our way to an Arab village belonging to
our friends the Bedouins, in the hope of procuring
something to assuage our burning thirst. They
hospitably furnished us with, some bad water and
some sour camel's milk, so old that it was all but
putrid, which, notwithstanding, our thirst and hun-
ger rendered drinkable. As every Arab who does
you the most trifling service, such, for example, as
merely dipping up and handing you a cup of water,
invariably expects a reward (bueksheesh, i. e. a pre-
sent) for it, we, as usual, offered pay. I do not re-
member how much was offered, but I think about
as much as we should have given in the United
States for the same quantity of good sweet milk.
A respectable-looking old man with a white beard,
to whom the money was presented, declined it with
dignity, and, as I thought, with a very slight ex-
pression of displeasure. I was surprised and de-
lighted. "Here, at last," I said to myself, "is an
Arab who is above receiving bueksheesh." We