Allah feeds camels regardless the size of their bellies
-Arabic proverb
I don’t know if it was from Allah or the rains, but we had plenty of Good Grass, what they called Gashsh [which Lane spells with a Q and gives as Straw] Samh [which Wehr gives as Magnanimous, Generous, Openhanded] in the early days on the trail, and all that grazing delayed us plenty, to the point I thought we’d be Sixty not Forty Days getting to Egypt. But even so, by the time we arrived in Binban, after those days of straw and sand, their bellies were looking awfully gaunt.