the following; “Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall stregthen thine heart, wait, I say; on the Lord.” Psalms 20. “I shall not die but live; and declare the works of the Lord: the Lord hath chatized me sore, yet, he hath not given me over to death.” Psalms 112. 17, 18. “Cast thy burthen upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.” Psalms 35, 22, “I know O Lod that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hath afflicted me.” Psalms 119, 75.

As it was now quite dark, we retired to rest upon a few old mats that the Arabs had thrown into our tent for us to repose on: but the apprehension of being separated the ensuing morning, deprived us of sleep; indeed the night was spent in a state of anxiety not easy to conceive of. While we remained in this situation until day light, our masters were engaged the whole night in debate, there appearing by what little we could understand, yesome difficulty in deciding to whom each one of us belonged; the dispute however at length subsiding and the time of milking the camels having arrived, our masters presented us with a pint of milk each, warm from the beast, which refreshed us very much. Our tents were now visited by the wives and children of the Arabs, who having satisfied their curiosity by gazing at us for half an hour, to express their disgust, the children were encouraged by their mothers to spit and throw sand in our faces; as