ABSTRACT
April 2.—We neither of us slept much last night, for we were too much excited at the thought © ' o of starting, and too anxious lest, at the last moment, some accident should again delay us. About two o'clock in the morning, Wilfrid, who was roaming about, heard a sound of voices coming through the dark towards us from the town; and, presently afterwards, Ferhan challenged the talkers. Our hearts sank as we heard a reply in Turkish, and knew that they must be a party of soldiers, the very thing we most of all feared. Their arrival, too, reminded us disagreeably of what had happened at Bir ; and it was in anything but a pleasant
64 Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, [en. xix.
