the chief, and a runner ran before us carrying

    a spear.  the mules

    folloy camels in the

    caravan, and ty in number.

    e  from try of tartars into try of those

    whe

    heir caves.  As we

    passed over tains

    fall on us, and eacied a veil of gauze before his eyes.  As

    arro us from

    trees, and at nigime we he wild men

    beating on to to

    fruits before t o the

    tos hem warm milk in howls of brass, and

    t us go by.  times in our journey o the banks

    of t on rafts of  bladders of

    blown  us and sougo slay

    us.  rembled.

    ty levied tolls on us, but  suffer us

    to enter tes.  ttle

    maize-cakes baked in h

    dates.  For every s hem a bead of amber.

    he

    o ts.  e foughe Magadae who

    are born old, and grow younger and younger every year, and die when

    ttle croi hey

    are tigers, and paint themselves yellow and black; and

    es rees, and

    t their god,

    she Krimnians who worship a crocodile,

    and give it earrings of green glass, and feed it ter and

    fresh

    t, and run more sly than

    tle, and a third died of

    .  t murmured against me, and said t I

    tune.  I took a one

    and let it sting me.   I did not sicken they grew

    afraid.

    In ty of Illel.  It -

    time  is outside the

    air ry, for travelling in Scorpion.  e took

    tes from trees, and brake them, and dran