Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates Vol 2 - The Search For Mecca

CH. XXI.]
March 2mder a Bummjr Suji.
hot and they arc making forced marches. A good
many lambs are already dead, and they have given
us one which, as we are short of provisions, we are
glad enough to take.
When the shepherds see that
a lamb can go no farther they cut its throat, and
then the meat is lawful eating, though it would
not be so if the animal had died of its own
accord.
We should hardly have found the well if it had
not been for the Eoala, as it lay in a very unlikely
place and, not having been used this
year, had no
tracks leading to it. It is very deep, sixty feet, as
we measured by the rope used; but the water is
sweet and good. Its name is Busep-i. All the
beasts, camels as well as mares, drank copiously,
my mare, the most abstemious, not being content
with less than four buckets full. The Welled Ali
shepherds have insisted
on keeping company with
us, in the lioj^e of getting through the Roiila country
under our protection ; but their attempt to go
through at all is to me inexplicable. They have
with them, besides the sheep, fifteen camels and a
nice looking mare and foal, all lawful prize of
war !
April 13.—No abatement of the heat. The
sheep go with their tongues hanging out, poor
things, and their owners have shorn some of them
in the hopes of saving them. Soon after Ave started,
we passed between two high hills, Keukle lo the
right and Rummakh to the left. The Koiila told