Show scene at an aral arab funeral rui ru eral I 1 bap happened peneLl to be ba present at a funeral of one of the principal men of the when a seene scene not unlike that of a an n irish wake took place the burial ground was waa not far from our tents and liere hero gathered a large con concourse coure of men and wailing ingao women men the women collected under a clump of doum docial bushes apart squatting in a semicircle semi circle and from time to time indulging in wild cirill screams the men standing solemnly round tile the spot on which the grave was about to be du dug with the shrouded shiou ded corpse on a litter in abo rear car I 1 their habit seems to he be to console their k grief by a species of mournful festivity to provide for 11 killich aich I 1 was told no fewer than thirty five sheep had been killed I 1 went 10 to one of their encampments encamp ments about half a mile distant their black tents were pitched amid a mass of locks and guarded as usual by savage dois dogs they cultivate such patches pat clies of land as ire are available arai Lible in this stony district but blit ans are r e a poor tribe en english lish illustrated magazine mile |