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JENEEN.
your pistols; yet as mere blood-thirstiness is not
among the many sins of these people, they would
patiently and wisely wait till nature—the need of
food and sleep—should place you at their mercy.
In a few hours, or days at the farthest, and all
your money, clothes, ay, and your trusted pistols
too, may be had for less than the asking. With
regard to your treatment, much would depend on
the character of those among whom you may chance
to fall; if hardened and reckless, they would rob
and leave you; if comparatively humane, they might
respect your misfortunes and treat you kindly,
with the expectation, of course, of being well re-
warded for it. If Arabs of this sort found you
first, or if those of any sort found you after you
had been robbed, they would probably, on dis-
covering that it was impossible to learn anything
from yourself, convey you to some English consul
—knowing that they are generally fond of curiosi-
ties—as if you had been some nondescript animal;
and so perhaps the matter might end.
We arrived at Jeneen, near the middle of the
afternoon, and pitched our tent about a quarter of
a mile from the town. Scarcely was it sunset,
when we heard the cries of jackals on every side.
Walking forth a half a mile or so from our tent, we
saw great troops of them a little way off from us,
JENEEN.
your pistols; yet as mere blood-thirstiness is not
among the many sins of these people, they would
patiently and wisely wait till nature—the need of
food and sleep—should place you at their mercy.
In a few hours, or days at the farthest, and all
your money, clothes, ay, and your trusted pistols
too, may be had for less than the asking. With
regard to your treatment, much would depend on
the character of those among whom you may chance
to fall; if hardened and reckless, they would rob
and leave you; if comparatively humane, they might
respect your misfortunes and treat you kindly,
with the expectation, of course, of being well re-
warded for it. If Arabs of this sort found you
first, or if those of any sort found you after you
had been robbed, they would probably, on dis-
covering that it was impossible to learn anything
from yourself, convey you to some English consul
—knowing that they are generally fond of curiosi-
ties—as if you had been some nondescript animal;
and so perhaps the matter might end.
We arrived at Jeneen, near the middle of the
afternoon, and pitched our tent about a quarter of
a mile from the town. Scarcely was it sunset,
when we heard the cries of jackals on every side.
Walking forth a half a mile or so from our tent, we
saw great troops of them a little way off from us,