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Arrival at Moses' Wells.—First Sabbath in the Desert.—Our camp and its furniture.—Start on Monday morning "on the track of the Israelites."—Proposed route through the Sinaitic Peninsula.—Geological questions to be determined.—Group of Egyptian vultures.—Tâset Bisher.—The scene of Prof. Palmer's murder.—Account thereof from our Arabs.—Camp at Wâdy Sudur.—Desert scenery.—The jerboa.—Beauty of the desert melon.—My camel and his driver, Saia.—Jebel Hamâm.—Wâdy Gharandel, the