ating
Brahmins of India, but in all countries of Asia, by eating of meat is
understood the eating of mutton, and horned cattle are reserved for
agricultural labour. In case of exceptions being met with, they are only
such few exceptions as help to prove the rule. This may perhaps be
attributed to the general insecurity of animal property in the East; but
that I do not think a sufficient reason to account for it. It seems,
however, that the ancient Israelites were not so much limited to eating
from the small cattle.

_Saturday_, 12_th_.--Thermometer 37 degrees just before sunrise, nearly
thirty degrees lower than under the same circumstances two days before.
The night had been cold and damp; the grass was found wet in the places
sheltered from the current of wind, which had elsewhere formed hoarfrost
over the field. This reminded us of the elevation we had reached to; and
we all exclaimed as to the reasonableness of Jacob's expostulation with
Laban, when he asserted that "in the day the drought [or heat] consumed
him, and the frost by night," (Gen. xxxi. 40.) We were upon frozen
ground in the month of May, after passing through a flight of locusts on
the preceding day.

A lively scene was the packing up. 'Abdu'l 'Azeez was happy at seeing us
all happy, and laying hold of a couple of dirty, ragged urchins, he shook
them well, and lifted them up from the ground, and offered them to me,
saying, "Here, take these little imps of mine, and do what you like with
them; send them to England if you will, for they are growing up like
beasts here, and what can I do?" All I could do was to speak cheerfully
to them, and make them some little presents. At the door of Deab's tent
was his bay mare of high race, and his spear planted beside her. He
accompanied us as far as his own encampment, two or three hours over wide
plains and grassy pastures. Soon after leaving Na'oor he took us up a
small hill, which was called _Setcher_, (probably _Setker_ in town
pronunciation,) where there were some ruins of no considerable amount,
but the stones of cyclopean size. Query--Were these remains of the
primeval Zamzummim? (Deut. ii. 20.)

At _Dahair el Hhumar_ (Asses' Hill) we alighted in Deab's own camp, not
large in extent or number of people, probably only a small detachment
from the main body brought with him for the occasion, but not such, or so
placed, as to interfere with the camp of 'Abdul 'Azeez. However, the
well-known emble