tuation in which nature has placed these people under a sky almost perpetually inflamed with out clouds, in the width of immense and boundless plans, without house, trees, rivulets, or hills — as to make of them, a race of men equally singular in their physical and moral character. This singu larity is so striking, that even their neighbors the Syrians regard them as extraordinary beings, especially this trades which dwell in the depths of the desert, and never approach the towns. when in the time of Shaik Daher some of their horsemen came as far as Acre, they excited the same curiosity there, as a visit from the savages of America would in Europe. Every body viewed with surprise these men, who are more diminutive, meagre, and swarthy, than any of the known Bedoweens; their withered legs were only composed of tendons, and had no calves; their bellies seemed to cling to their backs, and their hair was frizzled almost as much as that of the Negroes. They, on the other hand, were no less astonished at every thing they saw: they could neither conceive how the houses and minarets could stand erect nor how men ventured to dwell beneath them, and always in the same spot; but above all, they were all in ecstasy on be holding the sea, nor could they comprehend what that desert of water could be. In general the Be doweens are small, meagre and tawny; more so, however, in the heart of the desert than on the frontiers of cultivated country; but they always of a