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Our factotum, El Baggar, had collected a number of baggage-camels and riding dromedaries, or &#8220;hygeens&#8221;. The latter he had brought for approval, as we bad suffered much from the extreme roughness of our late camels. There is the same difference between a good hygeen, or dromedary, and a baggage-camel, as between the thoroughbred and the cart-horse; and it appears absurd in the eyes of the Arabs that a man of any position should ride a baggage-camel. Apart from all ideas of etiquette, the motion of the latter animal is quite sufficient warning. Of all species of fatigue, the back-breaking, monotonous swing of a heavy camel is the worst; and should the rider lose patience and administer a sharp cut with the coorbatch, that induces the creature to break into a trot, the torture of the rack is a pleasant tickling compared to the sensation of having your spine driven by a sledge-hammer from below, half a foot deeper into the skull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the evening we crossed with our baggage and people to the opposite side of the ricer, and pitched our tents at the village of Goorashee. 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