skin-bag

Updated: October 22, 2025

Gagliuffi told me he always put the neck of the skin-bag before and not behind, so that it was impossible for a person to drink, and at the same time to walk backwards with the camel going forwards, or at any rate to do so without being seen. Then, finally, there was the terrible action of the sun on the water, often reducing it by a fifth, and sometimes a third, of our supply.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846