For ladies it will be well to take asses, as they are a relief to the tedious motion of a camel.
-Sir J.G.Wilkinson, Topography of Thebes, 1835
Ladies will regret choosing a donkey’s jangly, four-beat walk over a camel’s two-beat pacing gait, one so smooth that it lulls you to sleep. They add up, a donkey’s four individual foot falls for a camel’s every two, whose right legs swing in unison as then do its left. And after a while, say in forty days, the rat-a-tat-tat of a donkey’s double-time march might well drive a lady crazy.