From Suez to K/iai'toiiiii. i ■> a caravan to Bcrbur, liati sliortly before stolen eleven slieep 'ill one day.

Straiio-e to say, all the annovaiiees, all the aets of rapine, are generally due to the Turks, rarely to the Arabs. On all our journey Ave could only buy, with great difficulty, four sheep. M. Linant do Bellefonds told me at Berber that the gendarmes had even plundered a village, and at the approach of another detachment the entire population had fled to the mouu.. tarns, abandoning all their possessions.

Berber was now not far off, and our caravan halted to ])e put in order. The next day we resumed our march. The evening was cool and I had left my companions about an hour behind, and was half asleep, when my camel started at the sight of a carcass ; my saddle, not being well secured, slipped, and I fell head foremost. The shock was so severe that I had no strength to call for aid, and believed my last hour had arrived. My friends coming up raised me from the ground, but \ could scarcely either walk or ride. I dragged myself on for half an hour and then we stopped. They rubbed me with spirits of wine. Meanwhile the caravan continued its way, and I only reached Berber