BAGRAWIVA A glance at the sun, which was dropping fast, told me that it would be impossible to get to the pyramids and back before it set, and having made the shekh promise to go to the pyramids the next dayj we turned back. As we did so, we heard the shrill cry of jackals somewhere in the desert, and the shekh, declaring that THE SHEKH OF BAGKAWIYA AND HIS WIFE.

the evening meeting had begun, set off at a good rate for his clearing.

It was nearly night when we arrived, and I was glad I had come with him, for I could not have found the way through the scrub by myself. The shekh's wife and the other woman had evidently been very anxious about him, and thanked God fervently that we had returned in safety from the desert. In the evening the skekh told me many interesting details about his life and the period of 269