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[[left margin in red]] Camels Memphis [[/red underline]] 
village of mudhuts. The name of [[red underline]] my camel is Rameses. [[/red underline]] The name of one of the Arab is Moses the other [[red underline]] Mahmud. One of the Arabs is blind [[/red underline]] on one eye. Made dragoman ask how it came about.  Answer: [[red underline]] "Somebody cast an evil eye upon  him so he became ill, [[/red underline]] and by and by ^[[before]] [[strikethrough]] after [[/strikethrough]] illness departed it lingered on his eye and he became blind." - [[red underline]] Such origins as dirt, uncleanliness, syphilis etc were not even thought of.  The camel seems [[/red underline]] a docile animal but for its groaning when lying down or getting up, or when frightened by an unusual sight.  
When one gets on a camel, first lean back, when he raises on his hind legs, then straighten up when he raises his front legs.  Getting off is just the opposite
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[[left margin in red]] Desert to Memphis Camels [[/left margin]]
[[in red]] To Memphis [[/in red]]
[[red underline]] Camel motion [[/red underline]] is peculiar but not disagreeable except perhaps for people with a too heavy abdomen. When the Camel [[strikethrough]] trots [[/strikethrough]] trotts motion is somewhat different and less shaky. [[red underline]] Horses here in the desert are rather uncommon. [[/red underline]] Dragoman tells me that they other day one Arab arrived at [[?Mena]] with a [[red underline]] hundred Camels [[/red underline]] and put where he was going to finish his trip. a [[red underline]] man on horse back passed [[/red underline]] galloping which [[red underline]] frightened the camels so that they [[/red underline]] run away galoping in every direction over the desert and it took several days to get them back together Clear sky and hot sun but very dry thru desert. Some [[red underline]] Arabian graves, [[/red underline]] some a nice heap of stones others only a stone. No line of demarcation between [[?rest]] of desert, Hills in the distance on the right. [[strikethrough]] Clove [[/strikethrough]]