Impertinent camels

Neither my she-camel nor my he-camel is pertinent to this matter.

-Sudanese proverb, originating in an incident involving a dead camel belonging to a woman named Basus, which brought the Bakr and Taghlib clans to war, and Harith, a man of the Bakr who declined to join the hostilities.

KhairAllah would agree, Keep your own camels out of women’s affairs. I knew two American women who rode with drovers and their dabouka to Egypt from Omdurman. They were arrested at the border for making an unauthorized entry and the dabouka was impounded. The women were able to bribe their way out of jail. I don’t know if they also paid to free the camels. But I am certain that the story spread quickly among trail bosses. Stay away from the shes, from all the shes.