In Constantinople you ask, "How far is it to the Consulate ?" and they answer, "About ten minutes." "How far is it to the Lloyds' Agency ?" "Quarter of an hour." "How far is it to the lower bridge ?" "Four minutes." I can not be positive about it, but I think that there, when a man orders a pair of pantaloons, he says he wants them a quarter of a minute in the legs and nine seconds around the waist.
Two hours from Tabor to Nazareth--and as it was an uncommonly narrow, crooked trail, we necessarily met all the camel trains and jackass caravans between Jericho and Jacksonville in that particular place and nowhere else.

The donkeys do not matter so much, because they are so small that you can jump your horse over them if he is an animal of spirit, but a camel is not jumpable.

A camel is as tall as any ordinary dwelling-house in Syria--which is to say a camel is from one to two, and sometimes nearly three feet taller than a good-sized man.

In this part of the country his load is oftenest in the shape of colossal sacks--one on each side.

He and his cargo take up as much room as a carriage.
Think of meeting this style of obstruction in a narrow trail.