Animal theft is and probably always has been an exciting sport and a profitable business in the Sudan.
-On Camel Brands, L.G.Hill, Sudan Notes and Records, Vol. 53, 1972
Notorious camel thief of the Wadi al-Milk Billa Ali al-Qrayn would also call it a free meal, as in the time he hustled KhairAllah into handing him a finder’s fee for the lost camel that he himself had stolen the previous night, then sat down to a roasted kid dinner with us letting bygones be bygones.