Show arab Felli felicity citY fr Ita aveling in in the east ast is is no childs play an alf iiA imitable will and a wood good constitution are natal tut ial requisites lie pretty sentimental M sands and sparkling waters fir up in our childhood are speedily diss dies kimt under drenching rains burning sun gun af ispus night frosts let us hear bear the 1 d di account of a traveler t we were in a sorry barry plight when we reach iiii it d the he bedouin encampment and were pooai littly inet wynome b by nef ef man inan of the cam camp ft w who I 1 lade jade us ss to his tent how 0 often n in youth woth have I 1 dreamed of a bedouin encamp j hint at and imagined the rural simplicity and or iii butita of such a life and then bow 1 geography had heightened the pleasing im 1 passions mansions ma by its pre pretty ty picture of little arab m roil t caressing t the he tame horse while the in hili a marchal archal arab his wife and daughter 1 bere rere ere sitting bitting quietly at t the he tent door at sun tryl and scattered all around were camels camel 3 foni ia tn posing osing and colts gamboling tamboling gam boling like other net i ong impressions impress ious of chil mood hood this alio 0 t is dispelled by actual experience the t which now gave us refuge was as i try anted on a rich black soil which 0 owing I 1 n g lot the herain rain and the trampling of human and re estial feetham tee fee thad been converted into a muddy lee ili nigh gh g the tents were low and black a and nd wd around mid each door were dirty children pad ota bin ing in puddles pu dilles and sn ailing curs fighting in e er bonesi ones happily for us our tent was on is 00 outskirts u s and ami if ibrahim told the truth led as the larget larg qt and most moa regal in the whole e 1 it w was as just about fifteen feet or on f by ten wide made of goats b nr and so 01 i as aa hardly to admit of our standing up ant b A huge fire blazed exactly in in the el amter te rand and the smoke was w as stif suffered ered to make ott dd j it la s way out as it could by the doorways doorway un hm ii er beeves of he tent or through the gaps bore bhore abe only way to keep from buffo abing it as to lie flat on oil our backs which 1 l ve t did with our feet to the fire being ar nl tog red like the spokes of a m wheel heel feour we our j rites 1111 vesp occupied one halt half of the circle our j r fiat inthis his wives and children and a great i umber lumber of guests attracted by curiosity octy the oth other r half and choking hoking fc up the ty 0 borway about which v there was a continual ty ht for pieced precedence nee besides ourselves the ac tent entwis was quite choked up with the household d agricultural stuff of our rich host and ae e corner carner was entirely monopolized by a r baer enclosure containing four very active poo lives calves which required all the vigilance of sal d our hosts elder wife to keep them within oitt it their atit frail prison once indeed they did re escape and rushed like a thunderbolt as A il some B writers say of ar armies arales through gla the 1 ranks of spectators in the doon doorway amid all these difficulties w we a took 0 our r alia din ter ta which excited the amazement of the trued and in in the progress ochi ot which c h my only jur air of boots were licked kicked I 1 nto into t the h e f fire re by a I 1 tireless artless spectator and burnt to a crisp after this we spent tile the evening in talking 3 tr over the adventures of the day and gossiping with ich our hosts wife who though jauntily dressed seemed to have nothing to do but tit ott and scrutinize us carefully the older t wife lie was evidently the drudge arid and what I 1 time me she could spare from watching the calves IM she spent in in stirring vigorously her I wa as broth the K question fuestion ue stion as to how bow and where we artre to sleep was a curious ious one it was anally bally settled by aa an cur appropriation to our exclusive use of half al f the space usually cu pled W hy by the arab and his bis family they I 1 made bade thir their bed rn on the top of the household ia and we ours on the top of the agricultural implements As there was only room for at te five in a I 1 row closely packed was com lewd to take my position at their feet with art heel for my pillow and so go subject to til all the kicks which uneasy dreams brearn are pt to produce with my feet burning burnh ln in fire and my head bead freezing while lath the e 1114 it kept dripping into my face from the haky y roof hooft there was no possibility of sleep IQ il so BO I 1 had the whole night to observe what hat was going on about me all night the long the wind kept kep t howling dreadful dreadfully lys and rain poured down without ceasing on or roe side of the fire in the centre of the tent I 1 driven en in by stress of weather stood a cow ad a a donkey with of keeping company one oar r muleteers mule keeting who u 0 had ad entered surrepta t lonely and uninvited on the other side it our oar host bolt upright and entirely nude whether aether this was in honor onor of us or ahr through 0 h suspicion of u us I 1 I 1 know not but th there ere ulle he at all night never stirred from hi his s place 1 id I never ale slept t a wick now h he would scratch atch ill himself ser very vigorously for fleas 00 tin tied now he aou wound vigorously d bow hn his head to the w grant ground and mumble his bis prayers pra now ho he would stretch out his long arms and dip into the kettle ot of broth an and d slap his stomach as he tasted the food and then the scratching and bowing and mumbling and dipping deppin g nv mould be gone over again in the same order and so it went on till dawn when the older wife arose let out the calves and filling up an undressed goat skin with curds b began n to thrash it with a club a way ah she eta bad d of making butter this of course waked up my five kicking companions and the long night was ended A strange night it was to your wakeful correspondent pon dent lying there listening to the rain and wind and thinking how far he a was from all civilization in a wild land and among a wilder people I 1 thought of the arabs salt and felt secure I 1 thought more of the good providence that was over us and was keeping us by night and by day |