they should obtain a plentiful supply, and we might drink our fill.

The Arabs now began to make preparation to depart; the one by whom I was claimed, and who I shall hereafter distinguish by the title of MASTER, was in my view more savage and frightful in his appearance, than any one of the rest. He was about six feet in height, of a tawny complexion, and had no other clothing than a piece of woolen cloth wrapped round his body, and which extended from below his breast to his knees: his hair was stout and bushy, and stuck up in every direction like brustles upon the back of a hog: his eyes were small but were red and fiery, resembling those of a serpent when irritated; and to add to his horrid appearance, his beard (which was of a jet black and curly) was of more than a foot in length! Such, I assure the reader, is a true description of the monster in human shape, by whom I was doomed to be held in servitude, and for what length of time, Heaven then only knew!

The draught of water with which I had been supplied, having revived me beyond all expectation, my master compelling his camel to kneel, placed me on his back. My situation was not so uncomfortable as might be imagined, as they have saddles constructed to suit the backs of these animals, and on which a person may ride with tolerable ease--the saddle⚫ is placed on the camel’s back before the hump, and secured by a rope under his belly.