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Let us not go ahead to search for trouble. Suddenly he reined in his camel and cocked his head towards the river. Thefirst time he manages to hit it, you go on sleeping as though nothinghad happened. The compound of al-Sakhawi, the infidel, is filled with fat beasts.

Then, as the attack wavered, the Gatling fire ceased. It slowedand hesitated, heaved forward again, then ran up against the mass ofcouched camels of the British baggage train, and stopped dead. The Dervishhad brought up a few ancient Krupps field cannon and their shells burstin front of the British zareba. All three waited impatiently on the terrace, the twins vying with eachother to be the first to spot the pigeon.