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Citation Information
XXVIII PREPARING FOR KEVIR JOURNEY 325
the salt desert's dangerous domain awaited us, the clouds
hung like dark walls and curtains. But now the four
camels stood ready. Jambas, or riding camels, they were
not ; they jolted uncomfortably when I tried them at a
quick pace. But what did it matter ? if the weather con-
tinued to be unfavourable we should be compelled to turn
back at the margin of the desert or travel slowly.
In the forenoon a trading caravan of zoo camels arrived
from Yezd and encamped on the plain below Jandak. The
leader said that they dared not travel in this weather ;
they intended to wait till it cleared up. But I would not
stay any longer, so I mounted my new camel, which at its
usual pace took 220 steps in 165 yards, or 24 miles in
the hour.
The men and boys of Jandak came out and looked on
as we moved off, and the squalid huts and miserable
gardens, with the fort looking down on them, vanished,
and the grey and yellow desert spread out on all sides.
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