A bad ride was ahead of them and it was difficult to decide whether to go gently, sparing the animals, in which case they might fail from hunger, or whether to ride hard, in which case they might break down with exhaustion or sore feet in mid-desert.
-Robert Graves, Lawrence and the Arabs, 1927
KhairAllah always said, BiRāh, BiRāh, Go Easy, Go Easy. So we did that for those forty days, and when we arrived in Binban and Hajj Bashir saw that his camels were sound and fat for market, he was happy.