Note 18 — Chapter III · MEDINA THREATENED. A.H. XI. June and July, A.H. 632.
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The riding camels had all been sent away with Osâma’s army, and the only ones now available were those used to irrigate the fields and palmgroves. The stratagem, was curious. The Bedouins blew out their empty water-skins (mussucks), and when thus buoyant and full of air, they kicked them (as you would a foot-ball) in front of the Moslem camels, which, affrighted at the strange sight, took to flight.