UNLIMITED WATER. 231 everything at once, there would be no occupation for the rest of our stay. Accordingly we watered our beasts and ourselves, and returned to report. These two pools were each about twenty yards long by two or three yards broad sort of crescent-shaped and not more than three feet deep. Their value, however, consisted not so much in their size as in the fact that they proved the existence of water everywhere in the wady. Anywhere in the neighbourhood, if you scooped out a hole with your hands, it would rapidly fill with clear water, and go on doing so apparently ad infinitum. (If anybody wants to know why we did not remove the camp bodily to these pools, it was because by so doing we should have been more in a cul-de-sac than ever.) The next few days were occupied in doing nothing particular, except building a small zeriba for some half-dozen bullocks and attenuated sheep we had been sent, as a great favour, by the Commissariat authorities. The cattle of the country seem to do without water nearly as well as the camels ; they do not seem to mind going waterless for two or three days at a