ABSTRACT
Sunday, April 7.—The name of the pool by which we are encamped, or rather of the pools, for there is a succession of them, is Khabra el Mashkuk. It lies within sight of the Tell el Ghorab, ten miles perhaps due south of it, and about sixty south-east of Tudmur. It covers some few acres, but is very shallow, being dependent for its existence as a pool solely on the winter rains. According to all accounts, however, there is a series of them running east and west, and forming a convenient line of encampments in the direction of Damascus. It will be along these that Ave hope to go on now to the Ro&la, who are not more than a hundred miles away, if report speaks true. They tell us we shall find encampments of the Sleb on our road, and learn from them exactly where the Roala are.
