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the evening, or, as often happened, in the pitchy dark- 

 ness of the night. 



NOTE. Please observe that when I speak of 

 drivers, not only in this chapter, but all through the 

 work, I allude to the class of men we are in the habit 

 of getting on service utterly inexperienced, worthless 

 ne'er-do-weels, usually unemployed loafers attracted by 

 the high wages ; and when I refer to c professional ' 

 drivers, I mean men who are either owners and breeders 

 of camels, or servants to such, men who have tended 

 camels from their youth up, and who have been accus- 

 tomed to them from their earliest infancy. 



