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Updated: June 26, 2025
The women are riding upon the camels, and so are the children; while the servants and camel-drivers walk barefooted over the yellow sand. It would seem very strange to you to be perched up so high on a camel's back, but Gemila is quite accustomed to it.
It was the same kind Father again who made them for you, and made the camels and goats for Gemila and Jeannette; who made also the wild bees, and taught them to store their honey in the trees, for Manenko; who made the white rice grow and ripen for little Pen-se, and the sea-birds and the seals for Agoonack.
Gemila watches them, and sees, too, how the white patches of sand flush in the morning light; and she looks back where far behind are the tops of their palm-trees, like great tufted fans, standing dark against the yellow sky. She is not sorry to leave that old home. She has had many homes already, young as she is, and will have many more as long as she lives.
He does not move or speak when the tent-door is again pushed aside, and his two children, Alee and Gemila, come out with their little mats and seat themselves also on the sand. You can see little Gemila in the picture.
Don't forget it, my little girl: some time you may see one, and will be glad that you know what kind of a fellow he is. The ostrich which Gemila sees is too far away to be caught; besides, it will not be best to turn aside from the track which is leading them to a new spring.
They ride until the stars are out, and after, but stop for a few hours' rest in the night, to begin the next day as they began this. Gemila still rides upon the camel, and I can easily understand that she prays to Allah with a full heart under the shining stars so clear and far, and that at the call to prayer in the early dawn her pretty little veiled head is bent in true love and worship.
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