contract-boots

Updated: May 20, 2025

Before evening new contract-boots, bought from the Mukhbir, were distributed to the soldiers and all the quarrymen, who limped painfully on their poor bare feet: next day all wore their well-hidden old boots. Early on March 14th we ascended the Wady el-Kaimah, which showed a singular spectacle, and read us another lecture upon the diversity of formation which distinguishes this region.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2