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some commentators to be the '.ocust uae_d over three·quaxtna of a million of squ:ire wat er and m ilk a.r e c:i.rried in goat-skim; as food by St. John. The wildP.rnees is miles, nevt"Jr trodden hy the foot of man, his d:rinking--vee3els are gourds and grnss-diversified by mounta!na almost absolutoly Only a fow c.aravan tr~ils crosa them Ju woveu bowla, which hold water perfoctly. A" . fir"' . . !, :. T.· · jj,. ._ . THE DESERT ba.:te of all vegetation. A Bedouin can t heir r111.rrowest parts, \' ith sc.~nty welfo 1d; Civili2:<1d enongh t.o :ipprociato the value hardly believe that in other lands the long intervals ; and the nrcoesitiea ,,f of money and ~ tew a;ticlen of European .All the vast spaces east and west of the mountains are clothed to i heir ~umm!.ts trade alono occount for their being pen..- manufaut nre, ho wants little el~ e than Nile Valley bflt ween tl1e fourteenth de- wit.h green and luxuriant forests. and trated at all. They are like oceru-rn, whe1..1 long, atr:i.ight, :rnd bx·oad double -ed~ed gree and the Mediterranean (over eighb tbn.t from their fl11.nka da~h down carcades caravans pf!J\B each othn in haste, lil<ll sword-blades of German o;,: Span fo.h make, Save money by buying your goods at .hundred t housand square mi1~e ) are t.he and rivers of "livlng waters. " S uch vesaela at sea. The m:i.rchi:o are perfect.ly to which he !l·fopt.a handles and llc.&.bbarda Desert. It would aee 1n at the first. glan~e things he has never seen or even dreamed terrible, and yet it is worse t o halt durir>g of hia own contrfriutce. A few poage£:a to .be absolutely unfitted for t he,_. mhaln· ' of, unlees aa a vision of the Mcsl<>:ffi para- the ct·y than to keep in motion, for the flint-lock mmketr; and double-lnwrel. gnna. t.ation cf m~n ; bat . aa h~ c~numue11 to drne. Buo the valleys, or wadie.~ (pro· heat makes s!e~·p or rf~t impossible, even All oarry lance.a made in the eoun t.ry, live an~ multiply amid the Hl~·rloes of the nonnced wadd·ie~), and some portions of under canvas. W ith the burning sand whos11 k on or copper hrnds are generally arctic circle, ao he doe~ b.era m this rain tbe plains aro often comparatively we!l under your feE,t and t he vertical 1:1un over b11rbed with such cruel ingenuity tha~ it lel!B, barren, and torrid zone. He who supplied with vegetation. .t\.ftcr every your h ead, you are as between th~i lids of is impossible to extract them from a Patent has never travelled t h.rough t he deserb ahowf r of tho brief rainy seaoon, the dry an oven, In aummn the thermometer wound withont the most hori'ible lM(·r- Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, canQ.ot form a j uat idea of that strange beds.in the wadies are converted for a few riaea to 150 and 160 dcgreea. The air ation. Fastened ·hove the left elbow is and marvelous region, in whfoh all the hours into furioua torrents. The water tb:~t hlowa feels as if i~ had just passed a curved pruning-knife used lio cut twigs lVfedicines, etc., etc. ordinary condi~ions of li.f e are completely disappears, quickly absorbed by tbe thirsty thrnugh v. furnace or a. brick-kiln. Over of the mimona fot· camels. On the right J.'y.mna, Novem bor 13, 188J. change~. It 1~ oasenttally a_ waterles/3 soil; but where a·1 impenetrable sl;ratum the plain it quivers vlsibly l.n the sun, ao upper arm are one or t wo small morocco ~. land, wit.bout nvers. creeks, r1vnl~ts, or lies parallel and c!oae t.o the surface, the if r ising from a red-hot stove, while the C!i.i!es containing texts of t.he Koran a$ springs. Once away from t he N ile, the wat~r is k ept from 1iiuki1" too deep and mirage mocks your 5enllel3 with the m?~t amulet.a ag'li.rrnt tha "evil eye" and other only supply of water i..s dedved from deep in such apota will be found t rees and her- life-like ini.age of lakes, ponds, iind rip. dangers. l\for.t of them carry round or wells, few, scanty, and far apart. frmg bi1.ge, the lat ter epifaging up with magic pling waters. No more laughi~er a.nd oval shields of hippopot»mna or giraffa droughts are frequent. Whe. n I explored rapidity after the fir$t showers, Man;y merriment a.long the column i1ow. Sol· hidE'l, and it is a poin~ of honor with tllem th.e great Arabian. Desort oetween . the kinds of grasses s:lfvrd camels, sheep, and diers and c~mp·followo:ra protect t.hem- t.o !JO always armed , as the following in- JUST RROEIVED ATNile and the Red Sea, it had not ramed goats abundi>nt paeture for a. portion of selvea as beat they can with tu rbans and cident illu.utr!l.ks : for three yea;s ; and when I travelled the year. Wild flo1vers are seen !.n great blankot a, bringing ovor all t he hoods of On the march, an E gyptian soldier, over t he Suakim rot1t e ~.nd tlu:ough Kor· varfoty ; on the slopes of the Arablan their r,apote.~, leav.ng on!y ,,, narrow 11 p. a r· having let fall the halter of his camel, dofan, no rain had fa!len for t wo years. chain, tw·~es upon acres of heliotrope ; ture juet enough to ij()\!I; whifo, strang" to ordered roughly the Be<:l~uin guide walkBetween the twenty-nmth and ~ineteem.h on the plains, a bush called merk, re- s<>y, the Bedouins etride along on foot, ing in front t!.> give it hack to him.. The Thev are Fresh, Good a nd C heap degree of latltndo i.t never rams a o all. sembling the Scotch broom, and bearing bure-headed and almost naked, without lattell' replied : A SPLJ£NDID ASSORTMENT OF 1 Water bacomes precious beyond the con· smll.ll five· pointed yellow stai·s ofsweetest appearing t o r.uffor 11-ny great diecomforb. " Am I thy fatlter'a camel· driver to be?eption ~f those who h1;,ve never kno~:n fra.grimce. In Sennaar and Kol'dofan a.re Vvere not the nighta comparatively cool th.us spoken t o ? " 1ta scarcity. Me~bera of the <?athonc hundreds of eq\\V.l..'E} wile~ Qoyered with _the (80 o in summer), neither. men nor ani· Said the soldier, raising his stick : mission at ~l Obeid! where water 1B muc~ pl.i.nt which t::.ltc11 its name from tho t or-, ;ma.ls oould endure t he terr1bl" ordeal. "Ti1ou son of ~\ hog, give it hare, or AT EXCEEDINGLY LOW P RI CES. _..more p\e_ nhful than m t,he desert11, assure« mer province and. supplies the world with THE BEDOUINS. I 'll atrike thee 1" 1 me that, the sntnrner before, water J;w,d serma. .After the iirst rain the trails The Bedouin sa.id : been sold as high as half a d ollar a gallon which drop their leaves during the inThe llma1l1 area, not exceeding five or "You call younelf a noldier hecall!le - by tho proprietora of the few wells tho,t had tense heat of snmmer are swiftly clad in six: thouoond F.qua.r o miles, coming under you wear t he unifor m of the Turkt~. You not dried up. When long ilroughta occ~r, living green· . Numerous specit>s are t.he description given of t he "wilderne.s~," are nvthing but an earth.digger ; I am a KING S'l'REET, BOWMANVI LLE. the al ways scan~y crop of doura fails found : the heglik (Balanites Aegyptiac'J.), is the wandering ground of t hoae tr 1betJ warrior, al.I all my father~ were ! " . away from t he N ile, and th:e greater part and several kinds ot 11.cacia, among wJ>ich of noma.da called Bedouins. Their total The soldier etruck bim. ln a ru(lment of the flocks and herds perish,as ~ell as a are the seyal, of conside1·able eizo ; the number is probably about half a million. ~ considera.bk)part of the populat10n. · It sount, u!ld for saddles and various nten- They all claim to be of Arab descent, the Bedouin'n huge sabll'e flashed out of their ancestors having cri·saed the R oo the 2cabbard. The other soldiers (whose -~C>~O~- follows naturally th2,t when undertakmg ails, and its bark for tanning; the small -i:hern Ara.bis( arma were packed on the camela, for we a j ourney through the desert the para- .Acacia mimosa, wit.h its huge t horns, the Sea from the Hejaz (N 01 mount question is wat er. A supply must favorite food of camels; and in Sonnaar centuries before c;he Chrie.tian em ; buu were in a perfectly peaceful region be carrie.d sufficient to last. to the next and Kordofan the hashab (Actwia gur~wni some of them have become ve.ry muah jumped from their camels to gather stones well, be 1b o~e o~ fi.ve days dlsta.nt. I~ is fera), which produces the gum arab10 of mixed since that t ime. In bet, in the to defend their oomrade, while other ----o-- -usually earned in goat and aheop akine the world. It beara a small orange-colored Arabic language, whooo plurals are so Bedouins ran up with sword and lance to strangely formed, Arab ls the plural of the support of the1rB. Hearing th.e shcuts, 1. THE LOW DOWN is as e a sily operated as a reaper . arispended from the camels' pack-~ddles. button of intens') and delightful odor, These are the water·bottles o.f Scripture, identical with the "poppinack" of· Caro- Dedawee, and is uhe name of the inhabi- I rn"hed on my dromedary, revolver in 2. TIIE LOW D OWN weigh,; 1050 p ounds and is IO& feet wide. wh ich become l~aky from v.:ear, and al- lina and Georgia. The proximity of a tauts of Arabia proper, though very im- hand, between the two hostile groups and 3. THE LOW DOWN i s a s easily draw n by 2 h o; s cs a s elevated ways lose a cons1der~ble port10n of t~eh· thicket of theee trees (the favorite resort properly applied to all people, of Egypt, commanded pea.ce. Afber hearing bot h bind ers am b y 3 horses . contents by evaporation. The first thing of monkrys and guinea-fowls) la revealed who speak. Arabic, lb is t.rne, but belong sides, I ordered the Bedouins t o deliver to an entirely different race. 'fhe · up their a,rms, which were packed upon a 110 4. THE LOW DOWN can work on side hills w here elevat ed b inders ~ter reaching a well la to ascertain the hundreds of miles off by the tweet perupset. qnantity and quality of the water. .As fume wafted upon the breeze ; and at the mads of the desert are aJ.way3 called Beda· camel. They submit ted without a ·word, .. to the former, iti. may have been exhaust- proper season lumps of the gum are. seen ween. The pl'inclpal tribes between the but three or four days afterward, as we 5. THE LOW DOWN has n o canvass to &et wet, s hrink, s t r e tch or wear out. ed by a pr~cedmg caravan, and hours glistening like Icicles all over the limbs. Nile and tho Red Sea are the Ababdeha, were approaching some wells where t hey ht . f h' h may be required for a ne~ suply to ooze South of the t hirteenth degree the huge Bfahareens, and Hadendawas ; Wet\b of Expected to find other Bedouina, thoy t! THE LOW DOWN 1 · las wroug uon r ame w IC pre v ent s gea :r :i n again. As to the quality, desert wa.ter baobab (Adans01i a digifot a) :£1.ourishes the Nile are theHassei:J.eeyeh1.1, the Ka.ha- sent me a deputation ,earnestly praying u. from g e tting out of Jine, cu t tin g and wearing out , ls , generally bad, the exception bemg acro611 the entire African ovntinent. This boosh, and the Beggaras. All these, the return of their arms, saying they when it ls worse, .though lo~g cuatom en Is the elephant of t he vegetable kingdom, divided Into numerous sub-tribes, have would be forever dis~raced i( forced t o 7. THE LOW DOWN saves a ll t he l odged g ra i n. -&bles the Bedoums to drmk water so thin-foliaged, unsightly, from sixty to almost identical customs, and differ chiefly appear without them. The petition was SJ THE LOW DOWN _ will cut and bind any grain tha t grows. . I d th d 0f rin immted upon,promise of good behavior, ~ brackish as to be lnt?lerable to all except seventy feet in clrcomference, bu t not. ln theIr d ia. ects an mo e wea g 9. THE LOW DOWN i s the most d urab l e bin der made. TIIE L OW DOWN .,t hemselvelil and their flocks. Well d? I over fifty in height. I ts trunk, always their hair. They constitute the groat which was faithfully kept. (:ro DE co:is:rINUED.) 10. · was completely successful i n the h arvest of remember how at each well the first skm. hollow is used in Kordofan and Darfour bulkoftiheMahdi's forces, and a.rethemosb 1884- 50 put out and s t ood the test. i ul was tasted all around as . epi~ur~s sip as a r~servoir for water, holding from formidable adversaries the Briblsh have rare wines. Great was the JOY if it was fifteen to twenty thousand gallons. to enoounter, 11oe the latter l~rned from A Pidure ofG1·ant. 11. THE LOW DOWN w ill totally e clipse all elevated binders. pro~ounced " m~ya H;lw~~" sweet wa~er,l From November to February, just their experience at Tamai, where a British There ia in existence a photogrzpli' of 12. THE LOW DOWN i>i warranted to w ork on fair trial or no· sale. 8 but if the Bedo~lns said moo h tayib, after a good rainy season, the climatb is square of two t housand men was broken, Gen. Grant ·hioh hi of pathetic interest 13. THE' LOW DOWN can be raised bod ily wi th one lever, the · ~ot good, we might be sure lt was a sol~- perfection, just like the brlghte~t and driven back half a mile, and Its artillery at this pr esent moment. It wa.a taken operator sitting in the seat. N o weight at any time on the horses t1on of. E psom salts. The be~t ~ater is war mest October days in Virginia. captured by these naked sons of t he de- during the last winter of the war, while neck:'. found in n atural rock y reservoirs m ~eep Though th e thermomet er occasionally sert, anned with only swords and spearll. the hea.dquartera of t he Army of the p 0 · 11.arro~.g?rges w.here .~he sun nevorshmes. rises into the nineties, and sometimes Thia alone would suffice to attract t he at- tomac were at City P oinu. The photo- 14. THE LOW' DO\VN cuts 5 feet , and all levers are within easy As t o hve sprm?s, . I never saw n;ior~ higher, t he air la perfectly dry, and the t ention of the world, even if their cue- graph may have been · instantaneous, for reach of the driv er. t han half a do21en m six t hou!land miloa moraings and nights are pleasantly cool. tom3 and modes of life dtd nob invest t here fa no appearance of posing for it. THE LOW DOWN · !, ls made only by NOXON BROS., Ingers oll, and t ravel. . . Game is found in proportion to the vege- them \Tith peculiar interest. Their wealth Grant appears in t he door of his tent with 15. The desert would be absolutely impas- tation . on the plains ostriches and count- consists in flocks and camels. They are one arm raised grasping the tent p ole. He sold i n Darlington and East \Vhitb y by. · · ss.ble without ~he camel. He was created less ga.~ellea and ant~lopes ; in the wadies, carriers, guides, and camel-drivers, ~ut is in the simplest field uniform, t he coat t p Q for it , and thrrv:es b etter there tha.n any· r ock-partridge and grouse, guinea-fowls no amount of monev can induce them to ia unbuttoned, and he wears the soft hat 8 · · .L'l'.I.. ' amp w;here else. Ilia broad, soft foot ena hies and hares ; on the high ridges, caprioorna work the ground, and th ey look with in· with the twisted cord of the service. The --· ----- - -~.~---·~ - - - -- -- - --- - - - _ _ __ !\!I!!".? him to tra.ve~se deep sand~ where the and wild asses. Amon g the fauna of the finite contempt npon the fellaheen and face is thin and heavy with care, and the .h orse would smk ne~rly to h1i;i .knees, and wilderne&s are some unwelcome epeci- the inhabitant· of tow.as, whom they whole fig,ure den otes aelf-forgetfulness, if 01 The utter absence of w_ould pro~ptly perish. He hves ~ al- mens, locmsts, serpents, and sco>:pions, scornfully term "dwellers among brick." not dejection. nnoat nothmg, the ~canty herbage of th.e t he lat ter quite numerous, and altogether On my first expedition, a large sum in parade, tha ent're simplicity of t he at.tid esert and th~ t wigs ?f the thorny m!· 000 fond of nestling on one's blankets of Austrlan silver dollars (the money they tude, the rudeness of the surroundings, mosa beix_ip- his favo~ite. foo? .i but his a cold night , but quite u naggre111sive if prefe:i) wrus given me by the Government would advise n o spectator t hat this was moat p1·ec1ous g.uallty is. his ab1hty. to t ra· let alone. Add t o these the vultures, to hirtt my camel-drivers to dig out tJie t he iron commander of great armiea, t h e vel five days without drmking durmg the which & talk familiarly about the camp, R oman reservoirs on the ancient military man upon whom tho hopes of tho nation . fiercest heat of summer, ~d much longer picking up what they can find, and t he road between Keneh on the N ile and at that time centered. Upon his skill, at other se&Sons. F or t his reason wells jack als and hyenas, whose howlB are heard Berenice on the R ed Sea. In reply to coolness, tenacity, unshakable faith, mllllre ~a.rely more than five days apart. The m th e nighb. Traveling at thlll seaoon la my offers of extra. pay, the sheikhs ae- lions reposed implicit trust. It was We respectfull invite your attention to our complete and African camel from Arabla, and has only perfectly charming. Every body is in sured me that not one of bhelr men would weary waiting ; wealth was wasted in one hump. The best breeds a re reared fine spirit s, for wat er and paoture are degrade himself by such labor at any strea.ms, deb t was accumulating, foreign comprehensive_ stock of Pure Drugs and Medicines. by the Ababedehs and Bishareens between plentiful . laughter and endleBS ehafl: is price, even a guinea per dav. They are powers were threatening, treason was the Nile an.d the great Arabian cMin . heard. fro:U one end of t he column to the governed by an absolutely patriarchal brewing, !ilrec1oua life wa.3 poured out They are d111tingu!shed by small h ea.d, other. A carnnn <Jf five hundred camels way by their great aheikhs, and the~r con- like water , and t he land was full of alender neck and hmbs, and. short ha.tr. covers mor e ground than a large cavalry dition ie vel'j m uch like that of t hetr an- mourning. This general, silen t , JnilexThe ca~el and dromedary di:tt:er only in regiment, marching with a front of about cestors ln the days of Abraham, Lot and ible, stands there at his tent do)r, ap· reliable, safe, and pleasant to take. breed, J.ust aa the dray hor111e differs from one hundred yarda where t ho wadiea are Ishmael. They have no individual parently unoonscious of observation, not the r acer. The burden cl\mel, c~lled broad, and reducing to eingle file wheu posseSBions in t he land, but the territorial 80 much looking abroad as communing gamai by the Arabs, never cl1anges .his re· cro11.11lng narrow defiles b etween gates of limits of each tribe are well defined, an.i with llimself, bearing in every line of face gular walk of two and a half miles an ranite and basaltic cliffs. When even - the en;roaohment of one t ribe upon t he and figure the impress of the heaviest re)J.onr under a load, which should n ever fn comes cam is itched in some pleas- range and wells of another are t he spo11Sibility, and of vicarious suffering. No note of complaint, no sign of relent~ceed three hi;indred pounds for a lon1l ani wady, 'and JuicBy dozens of fires illu- most frequent cause of their fenda. The great B edouin tribes were nob re- lng, no consciousness of the show of JOUrney, for hts strength must be est1- minat e the valley. The large Soudan mated by what ho can carry when ex:. II h I d i f 'l'he sheep, which fo ow t e caravan, graz ng duced to obedience to the Egyptian Gov: power, bat just at that moment a. patient h auat edbY h ar dsh. .ip an pr va ion. as they go, supply a dellcioas roast added em menb without long and fierce struggles. endurance in his own wasted person for dromedary! or riding camel, called hugetm, to the game killed during th e day march, Mohammed Ali's iron hand forced them th e woes of an anxious nation. Upon is. m~ch swifter. WI.th no other loa.d than and the canned soups, moo.ts, and vege· to submit when he conquered K ordofan him at that instant, rested greater responhi~ rider, a bllog of brl)ad or dat es, and a ta.Mes we used t o ca.ny in abu.Pdanoo. in 1820. Bub it was a very limited sub- tibility than upon any othEr living man ; skm of water, he can t ravel one hundred Afte~ dinner comes the unequaled coffee inlealon. Xhe Government never in t er- upon him centered hopes, entreaties, w.ilea in one day on an enrnr_gency. The at raightfrom M.:;cha, then pipes and plt>as~ fores wHh t heir internal affairs or wars, prayers, cnrees, bitter cr!tlcl.sm, brutal walli: of the dromedar:v. (a3 ot ~he. ca.~el ) t.nt chat, while all around wa hear the le.aving them to the rule of theil· shelkha, disparagement. He is in t he attitude of is .t he mo~·b excruciating, bm:k·b.Ieakmg, 111.u liter and gabble of the good-natured aud w!>ll satisfied when they can collect bt>ru:ing it all, with the cap&city of su:lfer· h b d f h skm-abradm"' mode of locoroot10n conldg. d n d · -'ngl··.l w h w d their taxes more or lesa irregularly. PRESCRIPTIONS and FA1\1ILY RECEIPTS filled with 0 · d · so 1era an . .ue ouxna 11JJ. ' ' " · Much lesq does it un dertake to enforce i"Jg and of carrying t e ur ens 0 ot ers 010vable ; ?ut VI'.hen preese m~o a p~.c.e r.nd barbaric songa, accompanied by the without complaint, which is the mark of absolute purity and correctness. of five or six miles an ho?-r, whtch ia .h1a viol, called lcemengeh. Occaaionally, of a conscription a.mong them, though, being greatness. P erhaps if he had failed, perPAtural gat<1, a good, high-bred drome- moonlighb nlaht the Bedouina perform of a warlike disposition, they would make hap& if ho had lost his cause o,nd diiiapdar? ia as comfortable a mount as c:n be their national .:Var.dance, with sword, the best of soldiers if they could be dis- pointed tbe hopes set upon him, this pie- _ . __ ....______ .._ -----·--. - - -- -·· ._ -· - - - ·_ _ - ·· --··--+.--:<-··~ d esired; and I ca.n ~ver, from pe.soual 18.nce, and shield, in mock attack a.nd de- cipllned ; bub this is impossible, for Ll'l.eir ture might to-day have been more utterly experience, t ha.b ~ fairly good horseman fence and even their !!l'~at sheikh the rmling p11sslon is independence_ and tho pathetic t han it is, buh remembering what will ~nd himself .· perfectly ~t h~me. on prln c~ly Mohammed Khalifa, condesc~nds free hfe of the deaert. Yet., unt ll recent the man ha.d endured and wa~ still t o suicamel s-b11.ck afte< two ~a.y 3 P1 a~tice. lo take part ; while. the beatiug of the foreign inter ference l1roke the prcdige fer before the fin"l tr iumph of t he people One of. tha m.c zt l.ntereEt!ng and pictu:r- dam;.lr,,1lcas wakes the echoes of tJ1e wad;r and power of tho Khedive, he held their through him, thia simple figure 1s not e~que sights of t,he deser~ is a carav,an of and t he :maw0ring yells of the astcnbhed great sheikhs responsible for the eafety of wan ting in any of the horolc elements several hundred camel:; JUSt f rt\Jlll Oentral . k 1 , d h , trade and travel on the de13er lB, and both that touch the h ea;rts of m ou. Af · '"h h 'k and chief mei·ch;i.ntl! pc 1.u:i ,.n · .1enar:1· · .., , · ··- -··..,. r1ca. .L e s e1 ij · l " , ,d " · ' t. ,,, .· 7 were most, effoctually protected. They wear turbana and flowl:cg robes of varwns lt tie y~i. erneas 11~ wm er l.11::;1~ a1·e a fine looking race, of medium height · colorB · the camel-driverl!! and common many i1tt.rnctions, it fa qmte the r ever.oJe and very w-ell tor.med, with small hands The Hawk " Out" on a Lark. people'are bare-headed, a.x1d wit:~ only a with the atm00>r~ as t!rn Arabs cal.1. the i;nd feet, and the arched in~tep of the W hile llexander S haw, at Kinetra, few yards of ooaree whlte cotton 11.ronnd utterly barren kmd of desert. Thi.a is Arab. In col.or they range fram dark was in the fields the other dav he heard the loill.3 but all armed with sword,1 or trnly the ideal deserb, consisUlng mainly olive to deep chocolate, but theil' fe~~m:ei3 ,,r;tJ!J of a bird app~rently in distress. lances. '.rh e animals are loaded with o~ hard gravel plains ~ivemified b:f zones are eqna!.. to the best Eur,opea:i;i tnw,. T.noking up he saw a lark hot.ly pursued great ooga and balea of oat.rich fea.thers, . ot deep sand, r~cky ridges, sometimes of witlt aqummi nose, xnor~ delicate In aha.p 1 · a hv,wk , which by a series of fierce 1 gum arabio, hilfoa, and senno, the chief considerable altitude, and rugged defi.les. than the H ebrew, thin bps, and splendid dashes f;r1ed to securo hla prey, but t he productiona of the Soudan ; while not a It is absolutely destitute ?fall v:egetatlon, teeth, and their hnlr is long and frizzled. la.rk waa successful in evading the atb(>.cks. · few earl"/ four or six elephants' tnuks and consequently of arumal !if~. Only The girls and young women often have Tite hawk, however, was gaining the wrapped in raw hidea, and loo~ng like tl~e o.s trich and hyena cros.s it swiftly by r eally beautiful faoeij and gr:teeful forms, mastery and the lark, t error struck, see· gigantic scythe-blades. On foot la a mot· m ght, and the vulture hovers over the but t hey lose their beauty e&rly and ? e- ing th~ :nan h elow, came down like a.n· ley crowd of almost naked savagea from caravans by day. Not '.l tree, not a bush, come h1deou11 hags. They wea1 · no veils arrow and fluttered actually into his all the tribes of the Upper Nile, from the not a blade of grass reltoves the glare of like the Mohammedan women of Egyp hand where it cowered trembling, The . . . · lanky Dinka, nearly seven feet In height, the sunlight upon the yellow sand.. N o and the.ir onlr dress is a few yards of ~ot· purs~er followed until within six yards, and everythmg that IS kept m a first-class Grocery and P rot o the fat and aquatty Bengo, about two one can resist t~e solemn Impression of ton, once white, wound around the wa1at, but scein.a what ha.d occurred. he flew cff . . . . . feet shorter, and presenting every type deep silence and mfinite ~pace produced hanging to .the knees, and leaving the in d'!egm,f. After a t lme the lar~ was v1s10n S t ore, will be s old a t t h e l ow est possible pnces. of feature and every variety of color from by tho dea~1·t. When night has com.a, bust and ahoulde1s exposed. liberated, when it soared upward, smglng a dark olive to the brlghesb copper and and the soldiers and Bedoums are aeleep The Bedoufo is the moat abstemious of doubtles;; a ~ong of gratitude to its deliv- CASH for Beef, Pork, Eggs, Butter, Hides, Tallow and all the deepest black. in their bivouacs, walk away under the men. Hill food ia a little doura obtained erer. The circums~:ace is remarkable as The natives divide their deserts into uneqnaled African moon beyond the first froo1 t he settlements in exchange for the showing how t he great t error conquered Farm Produce at C. M. C.AWKER'S. t wo classes. To the first they apply two ridge of sand or rocks. .Ar ound you surplus of his flook11 and the iikins and the less-the instiuot of preservation in names, el j ebel, the mountain, or el ba;l'r'IJ- stretches a boundless eea-lik.e horizon. cha.I'Coal that he prepares for sale. His the bird triumphing over its natura.1 ti m iegh, the wilderneas. This is the kind of The sand gleams almost ae white as snow. l>amels yield him an abundance of excel- ity. · I also return my sincere t hanks to my numer ous friends and patrona desert spoken of in Scripture, where :Not a sound falls upon the ear, not the lent milk, ana he could live on that alone ------------'-~---· John the Baptist preached to the multi- murmur of a breeze, not the rustle 1.J f and its various preparations. He needs Speaking of De. J:.Ce~seps, they ~a~ his for the ir very liberal support during the last :fifteen years, a n d hope by tude who went out to liear h lm, and ~eaf or gra:w, not the hum. of the smallest but litble meat, which is supplied by his P anama scheme will millet greati m)ury strict attention t o business and keeping first-class stock, to still merit found supplies of locusts and wild honey. mseot. Silence-only. silence-as pro- sheep 11.nd goats, with au occasional camel on the United State~." "Bu~ we c.an col- the same: I never found wild hone,, but the living found as death, unless it fa ):>roken by t he for some great td,,!t. Thoae who live in lect damages from him ln the courts," locusts which are sometimes eat en by the how1 of t he hyena or t he d1stanb roar of more favored rtJgions breed horse~ and said the daughter of a. Washington states· 'tlF Bedoui'ns, great abundance at times, as the king uf b easts. rliS~ cattle also. The denert graaeeB supply roan, confidentty. '"In what way 1" well i<s of the pods of a species of locust Within t he limits of E gypt and the mats for his t ents, and the trees with asked President Cleveland. "Suez ca.nal, ST AND :-Town Hall Buildings, next to Ont. Bank. tree, which are edible and are thought by ~ouda~ these desolate a tmoors exi;end pack-saddles, ropes, and t an-bark. His you know," wa3 the belle's re11pon15e. THE LAirn OF THE FAJ18E PROPHET. 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