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While pouring out the water into the wooden bowls, with which every beggar is provided, they exclaim "Sebyl Allah, ya atshan, Sebyl!" "hasten, O thirsty, to the ways of God!" and then break out in the following short song of three notes only, which I never heard without emotion. Ed-djene wa el moy fezata ly Saheb es-sabyl "Paradise and forgiveness be the lot of him who gave you this water!"
On Monday, 22nd August, the batteries again got away before the Lancers, starting at 3.30 and four a.m. The day's march was to Agaba, about twenty-six miles, and the next day's about nineteen to Wad Habeshi. Wady Hamed, which is nearer Jebel Atshan, was where one of Gordon's steamers, the "Tal Howeiya," returning with Sir Charles Wilson's party, was wrecked on 29th January 1885.
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