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They were met by a roar from the cove-head, and with that a line of glittering helmets and cuirasses sprang out of the night and charged past me. "Dragoons! Dragoons!" As the yell reached me from the waterside and the men there scattered and ran, I saw the shock of the double charge the flame overhead lighting up every detail of it.
After passing the Cove-head, Young Zeb pulled up the mare, and was taken with a fit of thoughtfulness, glancing up towards Sheba farm, and then along the high-road, as if uncertain. The mare settled the question after a minute, by turning into the lane, and Zeb let her have her way.
They haunted the wells, which were visited all day by women driving asses from the settlement; even the single old beggar of Ziba unfailing sign of civilization was here; and the black tents of the Arabs, who grazed their flocks at the cove-head, lay within easy shot of infection.
Itineraries also give Kabr el-Tawashi, "the Eunuch's Tomb;" and this we still find near the palms at the head of the inner baylet. It is a square measuring six paces each way, mud and coralline showing traces of plaster outside. The camping-ground of the pilgrims lies between the "Gate" and the cove-head.
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