It Lives In
Holes In The Sand, Which Have Generally Two Openings; It Runs Fast, But
A Dog Easily Catches It.
Of birds I saw red-legged partridges in great
numbers, pigeons, the Katta, but not in such large flocks as I
WADY KYD
[p.535] have seen them in Syria, and the eagle Rakham. The Bedouins also
mentioned an eagle whose outspread wings measure six feet across, and
which carries off lambs.
After four hours and a half we reached Wady Kyd [Arabic], and rested at
its entrance under two immense blocks of granite, which had fallen down
from the mountain; they form two spacious caverns, and serve as a place
of shelter for the shepherdesses; we saw in them several articles of
tent furniture and some cooking utensils. On the sides figures of goats
are drawn with charcoal; but I saw no inscriptions cut in the rock. The
blocks are split in several places as if by lightning. We followed the
Wady Kyd, continuing on a gentle ascent from the time of our setting out
in the morning. The windings of the valley led us, at the end of five
hours and a half, to a small rivulet, two feet across, and six inches in
depth, which is lost immediately below, in the sands of the Wady. It
drips down a granite rock, which blocks up the valley, there only twenty
paces in breadth, and forms at the foot of the rock a small pond,
overshadowed by trees, with fine verdure on its banks.
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