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Title: The Jordan Valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William
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Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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dining tent was also ours when needed, andsheltered Milhem and Kasim at night. Thekitchen tent contained the provisions, the coal, thebarley for the horses, and gave some shelter to themuleteers on the cold nights of the journey. One never ceases to be surprised at the hundredlittle contrivances and conveniences which cametumbling out of our rough looking bundles, from thelanterns to the flag poles, and at the speed with whichour skilful muleteers took down or set up this mov-ing habitation in the wilderness. The first few dayson such a trip are generally days of disagreementand adjustment among the muleteers, but after thatall moves along smoothly—provided you have aman who knows his business and treats the menfairly. Milhem was bound by contract to furnish ustwo good riding horses, and enough animals tocarry the whole outfit with speed and safety.When the camp was set up for inspection, thehorses were brought also and were offered to usfor a spin. One of them instantly showed his
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Preparatory Work 19 metal and make-up by clearing a space for him-self, using his heels for this purpose. He kept upthis exercise to the very end of the trip, but with-out permanent injury to either man or beast. Hisother good qualities more than atoned for thispeccadillo, and when we knew his mind on thesubject of all other horses, we treated him withproper respect and due caution. We named him February and his mate March. Their photo-graphs can be seen on page T^y. Three other horses carried Milhem and Kasimand the star of our outfit, a Kurd named Mus-tapha. He had sole charge of our five saddle-horses, and a more capable and faithful fellow inhis work could not be found. He fed, groomed,saddled, and watered those five horses by day, hewatched them by night, with the almost incredibleresult that we never had a sick horse, never had asore back, never lost a shoe, and never were de-layed an hour while on the trip. What this means,only old travellers can fully understand. Mus-tapha was

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