To travel in the East with comfort or advantage, it is necessary to do so according to the rule and custom of the country…supposing that this can be effected, you will proceed on your rambles, accompanied by attendants who perform the various functions of your establishment in a fixed abode…and thus in the desert the associations of home pursue you and practically inform you of those feelings of locomotive independence…
-A Handbook for Travellers in Egypt, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, 1854
I will never forget how Tómas Núñez complimented her when she entered the room on my arm and he turned to me and said, Estás muy bien Acompañado, and now I return the compliment to KhairAllah, whose comfort and advantage on the Darb made me feel right at home during those forty days of locomotion…I felt that he was my Sāhib, my Companion, besides being my Khabīr, my Trail Boss, and that I was very well Mashūb, Accompanied.