So she waved the sickle . And when the seven brothers saw the sign they said , ` Now we have nothing to go back for , ' and plunged deeper into the desert . The little girl soon grew to be a big girl , and she was called by all her friends -LRB- though she did not know it -RRB- ` Udea , who had driven her seven brothers into strange lands . ' One day , when she had been quarrelling with her playmates , the oldest among them said to her , ` It is a pity you were born , as ever since , your brothers have been obliged to roam about the world . ' Udea did not answer , but went home to her mother and asked her , ` Have I really got brothers ? ' ` Yes , ' replied her mother , ` seven of them . But they went away the day you were born , and I have never heard of them since . ' Then the girl said , ' I will go and look for them till I find them . ' ` My dear child , ' answered her mother , ` it is fifteen years since they left , and no man has seen them . How will you know which way to go ? ' ` Oh , I will follow them , north and south , east and west , and though I may travel far , yet some day I will find them . ' Then her mother said no more , but gave her a camel and some food , and a negro and his wife to take care of her , and she fastened a cowrie shell round the camel 's neck for a charm , and bade her daughter go in peace . During the first day the party journeyed on without any adventures , but the second morning the negro said to the girl , ` Get down , and let the negress ride instead of you . ' ` Mother , ' cried Udea . ` What is it ? ' asked her mother . ` Barka wants me to dismount from my camel . ' ` Leave her alone , Barka , ' commanded the mother , and Barka did not dare to persist . But on the following day he said again to Udea , ` Get down , and let the negress ride instead of you , ' and though Udea called to her mother she was too far away , and the mother never heard her . Then the negro seized her roughly and threw her on the ground , and said to his wife , ` Climb up , ' and the negress climbed up , while the girl walked by the side .
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