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 SB6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER

hand, which was chained to fome one of the company night and day ; but he very fenfibly refufed it, faying, " Unchain my hands when you load and unload your camels, I can- not then run away from you ; for tho' you did not fhoot me, I ihould itarve with hunger and thirft ; but keep me to the end of the journey as you began with me, then I cannot mifbehave, and lofe the reward which you fay you are to give me."

At forty minutes paft three o'clock we faw large ftratas of fofhle fait everywhere upon the furl-ace of the ground. At five we found the body of Mahomet Towafh, on the fpot where he had been murdered, ftript naked, and lying on his face unburied. The wound in the back-fmew of his leg was apparent ; he was, befides, thruft through the back with a lance, and had two wounds in the head with fwords. We followed fome footlleps in the fand to the right, and there faw three other bodies, whom Idris knew to be his principal fervants. Thefe, it feemed, had taken to their arms upon the Aga's being firft wounded, and the cowardly, treacherous Bifliareens had perfuadcd them to capitulate upon promife of givmg them camels and pro- vifion to carry them into Egypt, after which they had murdered them behind thefe rocks.

At fix o'clock we alighted at Umarack, fo called from a number of rack- trees that grow there, and which feem to afifecfl a faltifti foil; at Raback and Mafuah I had fcen them growing in the fea. When I ordered a halt at Um- arack, the general cry was, to travel all night, fo that we might be at a diftance from that dangerous, unlucky fpot. The fight of the men murdered, and fear of the like fate,

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