A SHEIK'S ENTERTAINMENT. 143 The sheik insisted on our accompanying him to his house, which was at the foot of the steep hill we had been obliged to descend in going to Amedeb. He gave us some meat, which we were, of course, obliged to eat with our fingers, and some coffee, and also a present of honey, and some horrid looking cooking-butter in a dirty skin, which we took with us. Our men made very short work of the meat, after we had tasted some of it. We spent the night about two hours beyond the village, where we had broken the journey in going to Amedeb. The following morning, while preparing to depart, we were visited by a number of Base quite as curious, and as scantily clothed, as their brethren on the Mareb.