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Show I TUB HURRICANE OF TIIE - DESERT. The following graphic description (of the Samiel,or hurricane .of the Ara bian. Dbsbrf, is extracted from an old 1 publication: ''Our caravan was slowly pacing through tho boundless, plain the horses' stops sounding more hollow than usutlon tjie earth, and a more awful, stillness reigning in tho atmosphere. atmos-phere. Suddenly a lurid glaro overspread over-spread 4hocastorn extremity of tho horizon, while a thick sulphurqous mist arose 'frbrh thO cround in rapid eddies ncxt mounted up to tho sky, and finally overcast, with threatening darkness,- tho whole vauuV At. these er-rifio er-rifio Bymptpma our Arabs turned pale, and fioadbdn our- cattle with headlong f fnryin order, if possible, still to outrun out-run thq ;balbful blast. But in vain! Hoarsely, murmuring, tho hot stream swept the ground with frightful speed, and, jnuchras; w6 might quioken our ! pacOj gained f astupon us. perceiving themselves encompassed on all sides ' witli itsifiery breath, our people shrieked shriek-ed with" terror, our very cattle hSwlcd twith instinctive anguish, and all that had life ffitt'flat on the ground, burying bury-ing nose and mouth deep in the slutting slutt-ing ?and4-rin .hopes that the qnvenom- ed current, gliding pypr Jtho prostrate .limbs, might, not penetrate into tho vitals. , "Near half an hour did tho raging ! hurricano keep us thus rivettcd to the Aground, without daring to move, or speak, or scarce to draw brcatli, and soon entirely covered us with a fine ; impalpable dust, whicli.not only found jits way into erery fold of our gar-' gar-' menta, but, as wo' afterwards found, Into every jhrnbst beess of our boxes1 fageagYhcn,. at last, our bqastsi of burden, as if awakening ontof I & profound . trance, began? to shako f tlteixisoles, and all again- by ono LaccoM rising upqn. their leg?, gave the! signal; that thd danger. was past Every! vcreatiirq uow.fltOod upJ that was - able,' Ittiid thattkcU Prpvidenco forhis escapo. Only ondrmcmber .d thd caravanrsi foreign morchint?tdo f ardy perhaps, irf;prostratinghimscl -befpro an. unknown, un-known, enemy- rosdii6 more. On ap- Eroacliing;,;wo" already, r found himj rea'thlcss and- weltbringltf jhii, thick black blood! that guslibd' in streams frorii.,hts ho$6;.mputhiian"d ;:ears, l My guides lost'nbiimoh-'cpmmittirig' his corrupt; masai;. to "tho", earthy, ere -tho limbs jshduld' deitach ' themselvds - from tho swelling -trtihkthbn hbapcd'sdmo too. insults-o'i(L aiidthcso-' shorV riresandA.sininlo, monume tit complctedragairi procedqed onwards.'" 1 -" ' |