He Found That His Steed Had, Without Any Sensation Of Shame Or Alarm, Stepped Upon The Perfect Skeletons Of Two Human Beings, Cracking Their Brittle Bones Under His Feet, And By One Trip Of His Foot, Separating A Skull From The Trunk, Which Rolled On Like A Ball Before Him.

This event imparted a sensation to him, which it took him a long time to remove.

His horse was for many days afterwards not looked upon with the same regard as formerly.

One of their nagas had this day her accouchement on the road, and they all looked forward to the milk, which the Arabs assured them she had in abundance, and envied them not a little their morning draughts, which they were already quaffing in imagination. However, one of the many slips between the cup and the lip was to befall them. The poor naga suddenly fell, and as suddenly died. The exclamations of the Arabs were dreadful. "The evil eye! the evil eye!" they all exclaimed; "she was sure to die, I knew it. Well! if she had been mine, I would rather have lost a child, or three slaves. God be praised! God is great, powerful, and wise; those looks of the people are always fatal."

On the 1st January 1823, they arrived at the wadey Ikbar. The Arabs here caught a hyena, and brought it to Major Denham; he, nor any other of the party, had any other wish than to have merely a look at it.

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