war threw away their muskets and drew their stilettos; and we cannot understand why the Indian would always prefer a sabre to a rifle.  Yet we read without disgust of our men being compelled, by want of proper training, to “club their muskets” in hand-to-hand fights,-when they have in the bayonet the most formidable of offensive weapons,-and of the Kafirs and other savages wresting the piece, after drawing off its fire, from its unhappy possessor’s grasp. [FN#7] I began to treat it hydropathically with a cooling bandage, but my companions declared that the water was poisoning the wound, and truly it seemed to get worse every day.  This idea is prevalent throughout Al-Hijaz; even the Badawin, after once washing a cut or a sore, never allow air or water to touch it. [FN#8] Hawamid is the plural of Hamidah, Shaykh Sa’ad’s tribe. [FN#9] Shuab properly means a path through mountains, or a watercourse between hills.  It is generally used in Arabia for a “Valley,” and sometimes instead of Nakb, or the Turkish Bughaz, a “Pass.” [FN#10] Others attribute these graves to the Beni Salim, or Salmah, an extinct race of Hijazi Badawin.  Near Shuhada is Jabal Warkan, one of the mountains of Paradise, also called Irk al-Zabyat, or Thread of the Winding Torrent.  The Prophet named it “Hamt,” (sultriness), when he passed through it on his way to the Battle of Badr.  He also called the valley “Sajasaj,” (plural of Sajsaj, a temperate situation), declared it was a valley of heaven, that 70 prophets had prayed there before himself, that Moses with 70,000 Israelites had traversed it on his way to Meccah, and that, before the Resurrection day, Isa bin Maryam should pass through it with the intention of performing the Greater and the Lesser Pilgrimages.  Such are the past and such the future honours of the place. [FN#11] The Indians sink wells in Arabia for the same reason which impels them to dig tanks at home,-"nam ke waste,"-"for the purpose of name”; thereby denoting, together with a laudable desire for posthumous fame, a notable lack of ingenuity in securing it.  For it generally happens that before the third generation has fallen, the well and the tank have either lost their original names, or have exchanged them for others newer and better known. [FN#12] Suwaykah derives its name from the circumstance that in the second, or third, year of the Hijrah (Hegira), Mohammed here attacked Abu Sufiyan, who was out on a foray with 200 men.  The Infidels, in their headlong fight, lightened their beasts by emptying their bags of “Sawik.”  This is the old and modern Arabic name for a dish of green grain, toasted, pounded, mixed with dates or sugar, and eaten on journeys when it is found difficult to cook.  Such is the present signification of the word:  M.C. de Perceval (vol. iii., p. 84) gives it a different and a now unknown meaning.  And our popular authors erroneously call the affair the “War of the Meal-sacks.” [FN#13] A popular but not a bad pun-"Harb” (Fight), becomes,