Strike out, young men, strike out![74] The bullets do not slay; It is fate alone that takes life. Strike out, young men, strike out! The horse of Kaddour is dead, the horse of Kaddour is dead! Publish it through your tribes, for they will rejoice at it; But, if you are not Jews, Add that, bleeding and wounded, He was able to save his master and bear him out of the _mêlée_. He was not one to be false to his ancestors, Never had he been trained to flee, He knew only how to throw himself on the foe. Merouan is dead for Yamina—his days were counted! O my heart! why art thou so bent To make the waters flow back to the mountains? Thou art the madman who giveth chace to the sun! Believe me; cease to love a woman Who will never say to thee, Yes. The seed sown in a _sebkha_[75] Will never produce ears of corn. THE KHROTEFA. The object of the _razzia_ called _khrotefa_ is to carry off a flock of camels grazing at a distance of seven or eight leagues from the tribe. From a hundred and fifty to two hundred horsemen join together as "a knot" and set out on the expedition. The reconnaissance is conducted in the same manner as for the _tehha_, only the arrangements are made with a view to arrive at the appointed spot towards _el aasseur_—three or four in the afternoon—and not at the _fedjeur_, or dawn of day. When the _razzia_ has been accomplished, and four, five, or six _ybal_—or flocks of one hundred camels each—have been driven off, they divide into two parties. The one, consisting of the weakest horses, goes forward with the booty, while the other forms a sort of rearguard whose duty it is, if necessary, to make head against the enemy. After appointing a rendez-vous for the morrow, the parties separate; but, in order to throw out the pursuers, those who are to check the enemy follow a different path to that taken by the drivers of the flocks.