DEATH OF MAHOMET, when we arrived at our last camp. The doctor had given him some opium, and he travelled easily on the angarcb. We had induced some Base to carry him, by promising them some cotton cloth, when the camels we had sent to Amedeb for dJiurra should return ; for we had given the camel-drivers money to purchase some there. We pitched our camp on the opposite bank of the Mareb from that on which we had previously halted ; partly to avoid being near some high grass which grew at the back of our last camp, and in which an enemy could very easily have lain hidden, and partly because, on the opposite bank, there was more material at hand with which to construct a zariba. We made Mahomet as comfortable as we could, by giving him the doctor's.tent ; and Salee remained with the poor fellow all night. Although he took large doses of opium, he hardly slept at all ; he did not, however, complain of pain until the following morning, when mercifully his sufferings were very short, and he died soon after nine o'clock. The Arabs buried him on the same morning, in a grave which they dug at some distance above the Mareb. We gave them some cotton cloth for grave-clothes ; and Mahoom stitched them together with the fibre of the dhoni}i-'2\m leaf, fresh from the tree. The Arabs use this for the purpose when they can get it, in preference to thread, which I suppose they regard as European, and therefore unsuitable. The doctor considered it fortunate that his life had not been prolonged ; because, had it been so, he must have suffered terrible agonies, which he was mercifully spared.

After a considerable discussion as to what was to be done next, we decided that Lort Phillips and I should go to Amedeb, to inform the Egyptian authorities of what had happened ; the rest of the party waiting for us on the Mareb. There were