HOW DO YOU RIDE A CAMEL.
If asked "How do you ride a camel ?" I reply, invent as many attitudes as you can, and en\ploy them all in turn ; adjust and readjust the v rugs and cushions on which you sit ; ride with stirrups (made of rope), ride without them ; hitch first your right knee round the front pommel, then your left knee ; stretch yourself wide-legged oyer the saddle-bags, regardless of the firearms, dates, crockery, &c, which they contain—until nature command's you to make a less obtuse angle ; ride side-saddle, if you can persuade your Bedouin that it is possible to do so without prejudice to the camel, ride how you will, and when you will ; but above all—walk. Not only is the Sheikh himself glad—at your suggestion, but not other wise— to mount for a while, but it is a lesson in graceful riding to watch him perched up there. Heaven knows how, in some Oriental way you had never dreamt of. It is a lesson in curtesy to mark how at every turn of the road he offers to forego his pipe of peace and post of comfort and descend to the sand, leaving you to encumber his beast of burden. —"Sinai in Spring."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2282, 29 January 1912, Page 7
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