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 "In the month of August, a small caravan to set out from Berber to Daraou. They  of five merchants and about thirty slaves,  a proportionate number of camels. Afraid  the roboer Naym, who at that time was in the  of waylaying travellers about the well of edjeym, and who had constant intelligence of the  of every caravan from Berber, they  to take a more eastern road, by the well . They had hired an Ababde guide,  conducted them in safety to that place, but  lost his way from thence northward, the route  very unfrequented. After five days' march  the mountains their stock of water was exhausted, nor did they know where they were. They, therefore, to direct their course toward  setting sun, hoping thus to reach the Nile,  two days' thirst; fifteen slaves and one of the  died; another of them, an Ababde, who  ten camels with him, thinking that the camels  know better than their masters where water  to be found, desired his comrades to tie him  upon the saddle of his strongest camel, that  might not fall down from weakness; and thus  parted from them, permitting his camels to take  own way: but neither the man nor his  were ever heard of afterwards. On the day after leaving Owareyk, the survivors  in sight of the mountains of Shigre, which  immediately recognized; but their strength was quite exhausted, and neither men nor beasts were able to move any farther. Lying down under a rock they sent two of then servants, with the