Sat 19 [19 May 1900] At 3 the light began to come. Got off and
walked for an hour, Ahmed walking too. He gave me a round biscuit
and as I had had nothing but a bit of chocolate and an orange I
accepted it gratefully. At 5 the sun rose behind clouds and showed us
the line of pointed hills. At 5 Ahmed announced that he wasn't certain
of the position of Ain el Wu'ul and left me with the camel and
Muhammad the soldier while he ran off to the hills to look for it. The
others came up, I eat a piece of bread and drank a cup of milk which
had turned into butter and whey and slept. Hannah went off after
Ahmed. At 6 we followed them, we had come a good bit too far. It
was 7.15 before we had climbed up the rocky valley and reached the
little pool of clear but weed covered water. Lots of beasts in it. The
mules had an awful business getting up the hill and arrived fearfully
thirsty. I eat a little and went up to a little cave where I slept from 8 to 1
nearly. Came down and lunched and we were off at 3. The pastures
and flowers must be lovely here at their moment and the Arabs come
in crowds. We rode along the hills till 7 and soon after sunset
dropped down in the desert and dined and slept, very cold wind.