A few months ago a British traveler crossed Arabia in a motor car. How the camels must have been surprised!
-Zigzag Journeys in the Camel Country
Camel Country, which these husband and wife American missionaries in the Middle East call Topsy Turvy Land, and camels as topsy turvy ships of the desert because their masts, their legs, point down not up, their sails stay furled flat as saddle blankets, and their rigging is nothing but their tail, was never the same once such steamships as the Bedford lorry plied the Sudanese Sea.