…strange to say, after a month’s experience of camel riding I do not find the experience in the least unpleasant. The spine must be made flexible- not itself a bad thing for a man who is by nature stiff-backed.
-On the Desert: A Narrative of Travel from Egypt to the Wilderness of Sinai, Henry Martyn Field, 1884
Daoud’s doctor told him that the best cure for his bad back would be forty days riding on a camel. And if that didn’t work, he could always walk to Egypt.