Showing posts with label camel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camel. Show all posts
Monday, 22 October 2012
As quickly as horses
Good camels can cover the ground as quickly as horses, and we made our first-night camp in a little palm grove only a few miles from the lake.
Flashman on the March, p.128, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
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Wednesday, 7 October 2009
A quiet morning for Flashman
…I was lounging in the camp’s little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camel knows the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer…
Flashman at the Charge, p.251, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.
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