with water, which having done, they slang them on each side of their camels; the camel belonging to my master was next ordered to kneel, and I again placed on his back--thus prepared, we again resumed our journey, travelling east. The face of the desart in every direction had still the same barren appearance, and at noon day the rays of the sun had a most powerful effect upon our almost naked bodies; having been deprived of my bonnet ⚫ , and having nothing to defend my head from the sun’s scorching rays, the pain that I endured was extremely excruciating: yet I praised God that I was not doomed to walk on foot, and at night to lie in the scorching sands, as my fellow sufferers were compelled to do. During the day we continued our dreary route without the discovery of any thing that could serve to relieve the cravings of nature--we continued however to travel until eight o’clock in the evening, when the Arabs came to a halt, and pitched their tents for the night. To attempt to describe the situation of my poor husband, as well as the rest of his unfortunate fellow captives, at this time, would be a thing impossible to for any one to do, but those who witnessed it. The sun had scorched and blistered our bodies from head to foot: I will not pretend to describe their feelings; the compassionate reader will paint our distress in his imagination in stronger colors than can be described by words. We had nothing now left to eat; our masters, however, had the humanity to give us as much water as