Abdullah ibn Omar reports he heard Allah’s Apostle say, Men are like camels, out of a hundred, you can hardly find a single one suitable to ride.
-Sunnah of Sahīh al-Bukhari (9th C CE), Book 81:87
We were three Khawajas, three drovers, and one Khabīr, seven riders in all, in that Dabouka of one hundred fifty head, so according to the Prophet, six of us were on unsuitable, ungaited mounts. I needn’t have been a Believer to know I was riding one of them. Shahm, as Wehr gives, Animal Fat, so highly prized when eating mutton, is also the word Sudanese pharmacists call knockoff Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, which because of my camel’s irregular stride I consumed at the other end in great quantities.