Another traveling scholar died on the Nile under similar circumstances. His last words, complete with case-endings, were, “God is Most Great! I am eaten by a cro-!”
-Landfalls, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, On the African Travels of Ibn Battuta
KhairAllah warned us against swimming in the Nile when we’d finally arrived on Day 21 and were watering the herd. He was no doubt thinking about the Crocodile, its Arabic word of Coptic origin as is the legend of the Crocodile’s Tears, said to eat a man feet first and when it gets to the head to lament what it has done, giving the man only enough time to inflect the ending, Timsāh, pl. Tamāsīh. But carrying a Hippopotamus hide Camel whip, KhairAllah himself had nothing to fear.