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v.] SHERM TO SINAI. 7.0

and to place it lengthways across the animal’s
back, allowing both ends to hang down. Over
this a coverlet stuffed with cotton will be
found an agreeable addition. Care should
be taken neither to ride on flannel nor wear
it next the skin. Silk sleeping-drawers worn

underneath the ordinary pantaloons will be
found admirably adapted for those unaccus­

tomed to camel-riding. My directions will
not be considered too minute by those who
have endured, for any length of time, riding
on a bad saddle. Half an hour’s suffering at
the commencement of a journey will be quite
sufficient to render the remainder intolerable.
As we continued our route along a narrow
valley, by a winding and rugged ascent, our

passage was constantly intercepted by large
blocks of granite, which, apparently by the
action of the sunny heat after cold weather,
had been detached from the sides of the hills
on either side, some of which rose to the height
of two thousand feet.
It is singular that no inscriptions are found
on the eastern side of the peninsula, since
they occur in almost every valley on the west­
ern. About noon we passed a few stunted