took, away all the water and camels, and left the Tucorory, -
to die with.third: You aflsed me when I faw him after his;
leaving Chendi ? I tell-; you it was at a ftation o f the Biflia*
reen, two hours before you; come: to Umarack • his body
la y upon the fand withered and dried; but not corrupted;
his hou gh,o f the right leg, and hack-finew o f the left;
juft above the heel, were-cut afunder by a fword. The
wounds through his body were apparent.. The lance,
I apprehend, had fome crooks below the head o f it, as is
their cuftom, becaufe a coniiderable quantity o f his bowels,
were drawn out at the back; He had, two wounds upon
his head, which I. fuppofe were given him after he was
dead, for they hadeut through the Ikull entirely, and any
one o f them would-have been moTtal.ina.moment.. Ifmael
and the Barbarin threw fand over him. lo r my part,- I
paid no fort of.;refpe<ft to the carcafe o f a-mart, who, when
living,- had ihewed fo little for. my. prefervation. We
went to -the right, and followed fome footfteps; we faw
three men dead, all big and corpulent;. they were all thruil.
through with three lances ;.each o f them had his throat cur,,
and one his jaw broken;.
“ All the next day, th e road- was fire wed'with- the hoodies
o f the Tucorory, and the day after, at nine o’clock in
the morn in g,we foundhis horfe. dead ;. the. day following,
we found dead bodies trf people, who had periihed with third;,
fcattered here, and there like the t ra& : o f a.pmrfuit after a •
ha ttle y their dry bottles, jnade o f gourds, were grafped in
their hands, and fome held them to, their mouths as i f fucking
them.. God, as I fay, pjiniihed this man, by allowing his
pride and prefumpdon to blind him ; for, had we joined
our.companies, there could,not.have been a.better place
imagined*
imagined to have fought the Bifliareen than that fpot, had*
they dared to attack, which is not probable. It was a narrow
, deep,fafidy ilrait, and rugged on each fide o f it. We
could have put our camels, with our water, in perfect fecuri-
ty b e h in d us, w h ile our fire-arms, fafely from-the rock,
Would; with the firft difeharge, have deftroyed the beft-men-
a m o n g - them, and-fcattered the herd o f them into the defert/
The Tucorory would h ave feized their camels and water, of>
w hieh they- had but a fmall quantity, or we ihould have;
fliot the ikins through, o r th eA g a ’s horfe w ould-have over--
takcn them. In either cafe, as they w ere two days journ e y
from Abou Bertran, the greateft part o f them wou ld have
died with thirft ; and i f they had chofen to follow us, which1
after this rude treatment they would; not have done, they-
eould never have reached us till w e had got out o f their
territory into-thofe o f the Ababde, where they were as-
much ftrangers; and in as great danger as we; and the wells.- »
not capable-of filling their girbas, .fo that they would haver
brought themfelves both into diftrefs and difpute. This is
a ll that I know o f Mahomet T owaili-”
T h e Aga-faid to himfelf; “ Ullah' Akbar ;” ’ and fCveraLof
the company made their private ejaculations. The-Imam
had noc yet fpoke, but addreihng himfelf to the Aga, “ True
ir is , fays he, God is great, and does-what feems to him befty,
©r w h o would have thought that a-fervant o f'th e Caaba1
fhould be forfaken, while Kafrs like them, a • thoufand'
of. them not o f the account o f one hair o f ; that man’s-
head, were protected b y him, and arrived fafe and un—
b u r t !”
I-WAJo