The Jordan Valley and Petra . ore, while taking smuggled horses to theEgyptian army, and seemed to find acquaintanceswherever he went. He could find barley andbread where other muleteers would be in dangerof starving. He rarely lost his temper, but whenhe did he showed a command of strong languagethat was peculiarly terrific. Having introduced Milhem, Kasim, Butrus, andMustapha, we must introduce the other fourworthies—the muleteers. Seated in the picture,page 13, they are, beginning from the left, AbuKhalil, Rasheed, Salmon, and Hamad. They werebrawny fellows, who gave us good servicealong wi
The Jordan Valley and Petra . ore, while taking smuggled horses to theEgyptian army, and seemed to find acquaintanceswherever he went. He could find barley andbread where other muleteers would be in dangerof starving. He rarely lost his temper, but whenhe did he showed a command of strong languagethat was peculiarly terrific. Having introduced Milhem, Kasim, Butrus, andMustapha, we must introduce the other fourworthies—the muleteers. Seated in the picture,page 13, they are, beginning from the left, AbuKhalil, Rasheed, Salmon, and Hamad. They werebrawny fellows, who gave us good servicealong with their mules and donkeys. It is an an-cient custom in this land, which tells its own sadtale, that one hires a mule, at say sixty-five centsper day, or a mule and a donkey at one dollar perday, and the owner is thrown in for nothing—hesimply goes along to care for his mule and donkey,to feed them, to load them, and to drive muleteers lead a hard life, and are conse-quently rough men. If we were asked what was. Preparatory Work 23 the only thing we did not enjoy in all our longjourney, we must say in all truthfulness that it wasbeing obliged to listen for so many days to theirnever-ending cursing and swearing. We did all inour power to check this profanity, but when theway seemed long, or extra rough, or a mule fell, ora load slipped, or when there was any occasion forincreasing the loads with extra barley and extracharcoal, they indulged in an amount of swearingthat made us shudder. Most travellers, ignorantof the language, hear only the noise and exciteddialogue, but they can have no conception of thecontents, unless they have lived winter and summernext door to a lot of longshoremen or southernmule-drivers. It is said that General Wheeler isthe author of a story which illustrates this featureof travelling. He labored in the army with allclasses of soldiers and camp followers, and metwith some measure of success among them one class of men withstood t
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