the camels we leave here, they are ihe-ones, and necefflrv to
fboi r a e y "»« S
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S T t0 the Biihareen before they die with
attempt it.” Way’ they and their ri<krs>i f they ihould
t f a thoufand Biihareen ihould pais, ffle knew how to m if
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b r a d w h ' f 6 Cblld'S fake’ 1 t0Oi twelve handfuls o f the
bread winch was our only food, and indeed we could
& S £ £ 3 ? aS t® faW “ herwards, and left it to this miw
1 W1 thlS agreeabIe refleftion, however that
we ihould be to them in the end a much greater b l e iW
S l v rh t gir . ingWC had been an provided
only they kept their faith, and on their part deferred it.
On the 20th, at eleven o'clock we left the w ell at Terfowey
after having warned the w omen, that their chance o f fee ing
theirhuiband again depended wholly upon his and theft
faithful conduit. We took our prifoner with us, h is 'r igh t
h a n d hemgchained to theleft of one o f the Barbarias. We h S
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no fooher got into the plain than we felt g reat fymptoms o f
the fimoom, and about a quarter before twelve, our prifoner
firtt, and then Idris, cried out, The Simoom ! the Simoom *
My curiofity would not fuffer me to fall down without
looking behind me. About due fouth, a little to the eaft
I law the coloured haze as before. It feemed now to be rather
lefs comprefled, and to have with it a ihade o f blue.
The edges o f it were not defined as thofe o f the former
but like a very thin fmoke, with about a yard in the middle
tinged with thofe colours. We all fell upon our faces,
and the fimoom pafied with a gentle ruffling wind. It continued
to b low in this m anner till near three o’clock, fo w e
were all taken ill that n igh t, and fcarcely ftrength was le ft
us to load the camels and arrange the baggage. This day
■one o f our camels died, partly famiihed, partly overcome
with extreme fatigue, fo that, incapable as w e were o f la
hour, we were obliged, for felf-prefervation’s lake, to cut
thin fllces o f the fleihy part o f the camel, and han g it
m fo many thongs upon the trees all night, and after upon
the baggage, the fun drying it immediately, fo as to prevent
putrefaction.
, f T. bal( paft eiS Iu in the evening we alighted at a w e ll
called Naibey, in a bare,fandy plain, where there were a few
ftra g gh ag acacia-trees. We had all this day feen large
blocks o f foffile fait upon the furface o f the earth where
we trod. This was the caufe, I fnppofe, that both the fpring
at Terfowey, and now this o f Naibey, were brackiih to the
u ! nd efpeciallp that of, Naibey. We found near the
well the corpfe o f a man and two camels upon the ground.
It was apparently long ago that this accident happened for
the mofflure o f the camel was fo exhaled that it feemed to
weigh