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tendants ; but if he is content to dispense with 

 the comforts of tents, camp-bedsteads and stools, 

 and folding tables, and to subsist on the simple 

 fare of the Arabs, he may traverse the wilder- 

 ness at a far more rapid rate." 



" Most travellers complain of camel-riding as 

 a peculiarly wearisome and unpleasant mode of 

 locomotion ; but with these fastidious persons I 

 can by no means agree ; and as compared with 

 the 



Pack-horses, and hollow, pampered jades of Asia, 

 That cannot go but thirty miles a day, 



whereof we had large experience in the hill 

 country of Palestine and the parts adjacent,^ 

 my party all unhesitatingly gave the camel the 

 preference. Of course, on a good road, neither 

 too soft nor too hard, where you may choose 

 your pace, walk, jog-trot, amble or gallop your 

 beast, avail yourself of 



tolutation, 



As they do term't, or siiccussation, 



just as jumps best with your humor; the horse, I 

 will not deny, is a better vehicle than the camel, 

 in respect of fatigue at least, in the same pro- 



1 The reader will find a very faithful description of the 

 horses usually furnished Frank travellers in Syria, in the 

 history of the gazelle hunt, in Mr. G. Ross Browne's very 

 lively and amusing Yusef, or a Crusade in the East. 



