One tries in vain to imagine a crime for which the peine forte et dur on camel-back would not be a full and sufficient expiation.
-Amelia Edwards, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, 1877
The drovers asked what might we have done to deserve being sent on the Darb with them, in their mind a terrible, awful, miserable forty days. We answered, Al-Mizāj Kidda, We just feel like it. Some did not believe us, and others thought we were Majnūn, Crazy.