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without unloading, affords no relief to the 

 camels. On the contrary, it lengthens their 

 day's journey, and of course their fatigue, brings 

 them late to the evening station, and deprives 

 them of the necessary time for feeding and rest. 

 In these annoyances your servants, too, share. 

 They have a hard day's labor to perform, after 

 yours is at an end. They assist in pitching the 

 camp, and unloading the dromedaries. They 

 make your beds, arrange your furniture, attend 

 to your numerous wants, gather fuel, prepare 

 and serve up your dinner, and make the neces- 

 sary arrangements for an early breakfast, after 

 all which they take their own repast, and make 

 their humble preparations for a repose, which 

 must be interrupted before nature is half re- 

 freshed. Besides this, a delay of a couple of 

 hours, either compels you to travel during the 

 hottest part of the day, or, if your halt extends 

 beyond this, you do not reach your camp until 

 evening, and then your dinner comes at an 

 hour when you ought to be seeking in sleep 

 a renewal of strength for the fatigues of the 

 morrow." " When the way is plain, or in moon- 

 light nights, the Arabs sleep through the heat 

 of the day, and travel a large part of the night ; 

 but this inversion of the order of nature con- 

 duces little to the health or comfort of Euro- 

 peans and Americans, who like to take their 



