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"What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?" During the three days spent on camel-back in the desert nothing had happened which the world calls happening. Michael's small equipment was proving itself entirely satisfactory and sufficient for his needs. His guide and his servants were both agreeable and obedient.
Pilate's voice roused Joseph from his reverie, and after apologising to the Roman magistrate for his absentmindedness, he went away to consult hurriedly with Gaddi, and then to make preparations for the journey. It was a journey of three days on horseback, he was told, but of two days only on camel-back, for a camel can walk three miles an hour for eighteen hours.
It was an extremely unlikely place to meet a lady on camel-back; there were no tourists in that part of the desert, so far back from the Nile; it was not a likely place to meet an European pleasure-party.
These buoys are for the same purpose, and not to light up the canal. But here is El Kantara." "I think you said this place was on the road to Syria," said the magnate. "People who go to the Holy Land from Egypt, and most of them do go that way, take a steamer from Alexandria to Joppa, or Jaffa as it is now generally called, and do not go by camel-back over this road."
There are tracts of sand extending for many miles, such as those around big cities into which you wander on camel-back at so much an hour, and with the description of which you hold your less travelled neighbours enthralled, as you intersperse the munching of muffins with the words "dragoman," "backsheesh," and "Cheops."
Yasmini began making ready for departure, giving a thousand orders to dependents she could trust. "At the polo game," she asked Tess, "when the English ask questions as to where you have been, and what you saw, what will you tell them?" "Why not the truth? Samson expressly asked me to cultivate your acquaintance." "Splendid! Tell them you traveled on camel-back by night across the desert with me!
Some of the slightly wounded men rode on the gun-limbers, others with more serious hurts in such ambulances as had managed to get up, a few on camel-back, while the remainder were actually carried in stretchers by their unwounded comrades. That these men with their heavy loads ever managed to lift their feet out of the mud was a miracle.
The lion-skin he packed up carefully and despatched to Tarascon, to the address of the brave Commandant Bravida. As for the camel, he counted on it to get him back to Algiers: not by riding it, but by selling it to raise the fare for the stage-coach, which was at least better than camel-back. Sadly the camel proved a difficult market, and no one offered to buy it at any price.
That conversation and Jeremy's conversion to the big idea took place on the way across the desert to Jerusalem a journey that took us a week on camel-back a rowdy, hot journey with the stifling simoom blowing grit into our followers' throats, who sang and argued alternately nevertheless.
For the time being she was good and gentle, the reason being that she also was relaxed and inert the result of a good meal after a strenuous morning on camel-back. Michael had been riding since dawn. The temptation to let things alone was an unconscious one; he submitted to it. A great expanse of the desert was before them.
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