“Bu-r-r-o! Get on! The garfla is leaving. Hurry! Your master is angry.” “I have no master. I am a Turk now,” said I.
-The Gateway to the Sahara, Charles W. Furlong, 1909
At least Furlong dressed the part…pith helmet, safari jacket, waist bandolier, even if he did get the Arabic word for caravan (Qāfila) wrong. One morning KhairAllah told me to hurry and mount, and I said as a joke, Barkab al-Himār, I’m getting on my Burro.
Furlong