Camel…(poetic) Bint Umm Saaq, Daughter of the Mother of the [Long] Leg
-Sudan Arabic: English-Arabic Vocabulary, Sigmar Hillelson, 1930
Legs are everything when you walk on sand all day. Not arms, not feet, not your head. It’s your legs that get you to the next well, to the next camp. I was lucky, whenever my own legs tired while walking alongside my camel as I always did first thing in the morning to warm myself, I could mount and ride another’s set of legs, in this case four, feeling then like the Ibn, the Son, of the Daughter of the Mother of the [Long] Leg.