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Updated: May 2, 2025
Heiries are more slenderly built and far more fleet than ordinary Camels, whether they are one-humped and Arabian, or Bactrian, with two humps. To an Arab 'Fleet as the Heirie' means 'fleet as the wind. We are the Camels of Oman, and can travel through the desert without stopping for several days and nights.
Riding twenty or thirty yards behind the sheiks Edgar saw one of the horsemen look earnestly at El Bakhat, and then spur forward to speak to the others who were a short distance ahead. "That fellow has recognized El Bakhat!" he exclaimed; "ride on, Rupert!" They both shook the halters and the heiries broke into a trot. "Ride, sheiks!"
The two sheiks rode ahead, Edgar and Rupert followed on the heiries, while Yussuf was mounted on one of the spare camels, and rode with the other Arab in the rear. The two brothers talked by turns, and both were surprised when the first streak of daylight appeared. The party now separated, the sheik's wife and child taking their seats on one of the camels. She took a warm farewell of Edgar.
However the die was cast, and he had no wish to withdraw from the task he had undertaken; and, with a wave of his hand towards the distant camp, he turned and set his face forwards to the desert. The sheik was seated upon one of the heiries, two laden camels followed, each tied with his head-rope to the tail of the one in front.
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