A pilgrimage to the temples and tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and ...

230 ABABDE ARABS.
like the perriiques de Marquis of the French
Opera Comique, then powder it with shred butter,
and stick a wooden skewer through it, whicli they
use either as a comb, or to scratch their heads
without deranging their coiffures.
Some of these
Ababdes are very handsome, notwithstanding
their ridiculous-looking heads, with a very pecu-
liar character of countenance, great freedom and
nobleness of carriage, and lithe sinewy limbs,
betokening at once strength and activity. Yet
they live entirely upon camel's milk and cheese,
and scarcely ever taste any bread but the thin
cakes they occasionally make of the dhourra
meal, obtained by them in exchange for their kids
and dromedaries, when they come into the neigh-
bourhood of a town or village. The chief returned
with us to our boat, accompanied by the ScJieikh-
el-belled of Korosko; and we regaled them with
coffee and sherbet, and sent them back, each with
a present of English gun-powder and pen-knives,
very much to their delight.
Debod, Dec. 18tli.
On the afternoon of the 14th we reached
Wady Sebooa (or the Valley of Lions), just in
time to visit before dark the remains of a temple,
or hemi-speos, being half excavated in the rock,
half-built, and altogether a very rude construe-