Last, June 28 alone. We traveled for two hours this morning under a hot sun - yet drove up to the carts to rest our horses and finally reached a well about two miles off the road. Three or four yowits were scattered about, and a caravan with 200 or 250 camels had camped nearly; it was a fine camp, & from the door way of one tent we could look out across the plains to the blue distance, & have a moving picture of camels, horses, sheep & cattle seeking water, even in our imagination. The day we spent resting ourselves & our horses, for the latter would need 24 hours of idleness, Only one yowit was close to our tent & the well - the others were scattered about within a circle of several miles. It is past my understanding why nomads almost always place their yowits so far away from water! One would suppose that they would cluster about the well, but on its contrary they are at an unusual considerable distance away & this immediate vicinity of the well is unoccupied. All day long this was a continual stream of animals coming to the water - sheep, cattle, goats, jump & camels. Hundreds of them, in flock after flock