els, they dispatched two of their companions with a camel to the west. We were now presented with a like quantity of water and food, as on the day proceeding, and permitted to lie down under a corner of a tent to rest our wearied limbs. Here I had another opportunity to converse with my husband, and to witness more minutely the wretched condition of my other companions in distress; some of whom appeared to be on the eve of exchanging a world of trouble and sorrow for a better. The sustenance allowed them was hardly sufficient to keep the breath of life in them; having been deprived of nearly all their cloathing, and their bodies exposed to the sun, they were rendered so weak, emaciated and sore that they could scarcely stand; they all thought that they could not live another day! I exhorted them not to fail to call on the Supreme Being in a proper manner for help, as He alone had power to deliver them from the hands of their unmerciful masters; and if ever so fortunate as to meet with a deliverance, and to be once more restored to their families and friends, never to let it be said of them as of Israel---“They forgat his works, and the wonders he shewed them: they remembered not his hand nor the day that he delivered them from the enemy.”

A little after sunset the two Arabs, who had been dispatched with the camels to the west, returned, driving the beast before them. As soon as they reached the tent, we discovered that they had brought a skin of fresh water (which they had probably been in