The unlucky adventure of Horeysh confirmed me with the sheukh, for he was an unwelcome spirit among them; but it stirred up enmity of the fanatical common sort who thought they had now a cause to be avenged upon the Nasrâny. Tollog soon after, with most of the households, removed three hours distant to the W. Shellál; but the people of Hamdy's menzil, and of her cousin Thâhir's menzil, remained still in Thirba. The day after, for dread of night thieves, we joined our menzil to Thâhir's, which was in face of the upper spring. Our housewives would build their tents nigh by the water, where all the ground is a dunghill, but one, when I counselled them to alight further back, taking in her palm a piece of camel-dung, answered me, “What ill is there! I smell to this, and we would put it in our mouths; it is the smell of our livelihood, and sweet to the Beduw.” I went therefore to pitch my tent beside Thâhir.

This was a worthy man, of a liberal natural conscience, now advancing in years, strenuous of soul and body as any I have found among nomads; I had treated his wife for ophthalmia.

The listless lazing of the booth at home was not for Thâhir, he must be doing, and he was ready to take upon himself every hardy and even public enterprise.