. Peter Parley's tales about Asia : with a map and numerous engravings. le, to 104 PARLEY S TALES OF ASIA. steal awaj silently, and take his chance of es-cape across the desert. One night, when the sky was obscured byclouds, he silently left the tribe, and proceededin an easterly direction. He had providedhimself with a sword and a pair of pistols, anddetermined, if pursued, to resist to the travelled the whole night, and in the morn-ing hid himself beneath some thorny shrubs. Here he slept a great part of the day. Hehad with him some dried camels flesh, up-on which he subsisted!. He
. Peter Parley's tales about Asia : with a map and numerous engravings. le, to 104 PARLEY S TALES OF ASIA. steal awaj silently, and take his chance of es-cape across the desert. One night, when the sky was obscured byclouds, he silently left the tribe, and proceededin an easterly direction. He had providedhimself with a sword and a pair of pistols, anddetermined, if pursued, to resist to the travelled the whole night, and in the morn-ing hid himself beneath some thorny shrubs. Here he slept a great part of the day. Hehad with him some dried camels flesh, up-on which he subsisted!. He was fortunate infinding some water, though it was night he again set out, and travelledwith the utmost diligence till morning. Thus for four days and four nights he pursu-ed his solitary journey. On the fifth day, hismeat being entirely gone, he began to feel thepressure of hunger. Fortunately he discover-ed a young Ostrich which he approached frombehind a bush, and shot with his pistol. He gathered a few dried branches of the PARLEY S TALES OF JENKINS ATTACKED BY AN ARAB. PARLEYS TALES OF ASIA. 105 acacia, a shrub which produces gum he set on fire with a flash of his this fire he roasted a piece of the ostrich,which he found to be very good. Scarcely had he finished his meal, when hesaw a man on horseback, at a considerable dis-tance, coming towards him. Jenkins imme-diately perceived that this man was attrac^ted by the smoke. Very soon the horsemanapproached, and began to ride round him in awide circle. He came nearer and nearer, and Jenkinssoon recognised him as one of the Arabs whosetribe he had left. Having rode around himseveral times, the horseman suddenly dartedfrom his circular motion, and rode directlytoward Jenkins. Whirling his sabre over hishead, he came like an arrow shot from thebow. Jenkins was not unprepared. He stoodwdth his pistol in one hand, and his sword inthe other. He was a man of great strengthand activity.
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