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WATER ! WATER ! 255
camels. Here was an opportunity for Shagdur to retrieve
his reputation as a hunter ; accordingly, flinging off his cloak
and cap, he crept stealthily in amongst the bushes. I
watched his proceedings through the glass. At the first
shot the animals moved off, first slowly, then more quickly,
hovering above the kamish like black spectres, and then
they disappeared beyond the confines of the oasis. There
were 14 of them. After a second shot Shagdur came back,
AUimish-bulak or Sixty Springs.
and triumphantly reported that he had brought down a
magnificent male and wounded a young female. The
skeleton of the former is now in Stockholm ; the flesh of the
latter went to fill our long-disused flesh-pots.
The Mussulmans were greatly astonished that I had suc-
ceeded in fimding the well. We had, however, to go ig
miles, instead of 17, to reach Altimish-bulak ; that is to say,
I was two miles out in my reckoning, which is not so very
bad in a journey of over 1,200 miles.
I must now tell a little story about Khodai Kullu. The
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