and examined him. The Reilly No. 10 had gone
quite through the neck, hut had missed a vital part.
The little Fletcher had made a clean and minute hole
exactly through the shoulder, and upon opening the
body we found the hall sticking in the ribs on the
opposite .side, having passed through the very centre
of the lungs.
The aggageers now carefully flayed it, and divided
the tough hide into portions accurately measured for
shields. One man galloped hack to direct the two
water-camels that were following;in our tracks, while
others cut up the buffalo, and prepared the usual
disgusting feast by cutting up the reeking paunch,
over which they squeezed the contents of the gallbladder,
and consumed the whole, raw and steaming.*
On the arrival of the camels they were quickly loaded,
and we proceeded to fire the grass on our return to
camp. The Arabs always obtained their fire by the
friction of two pieces of wood; accordingly, they set
to work. A piece of dry nabbuk was selected about
as thick as the little finger. A notch was cut in this,
and it was laid horizontally upon the ground, with
the notch uppermost; into this was fitted the sharp
point of a similar piece of wood, about eighteen inches
long, which, being held perpendicularly with both
hands, was worked between the palms like a drill,
with as great a pressure as possible, from the top to
* All these Arabs, in like manner with the Abyssinians, are subject
to the attacks of intestinal worms, induced by their habit of
eating raw fle: h.