Competition in the Egyptian cattle market has arisen with an increase in arrivals from Soviet Russia. The native trade in Sudan camels by the desert route to Upper Egypt continues and there is a steady demand for this kind of meat.
-from Chapter 5, Livestock Trade, Governor-General’s Report on the Condition of the Sudan, 1929, Presented by the Command of His Majesty
When we rode past the Aswan High Dam that night with its floodlights ablaze, I told KhairAllah that Egypt had repaid its Soviet construction loan with flowers for making perfume because Communists found it easier to cover their body odor with cheap cologne than to heat bath water in the Russian winter. He asked me, What strange thing might Communists make of these camels?