saddle-mats

Updated: May 16, 2025

Whilst spreading the saddle-mats, our women, to charm away remembrance of chafed hump and bruised sides, sang with vigor the "Song of Travel": "0 caravan-men, we deceive ye not, we have laden the camels! Allah guard thee from the Mikahil and their Midgans!"

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa