The journey was approved at once.

New life stirred in every pulse.

In the saddle -- abroad on the plains--sleeping in beds bounded only by the horizon: fancy was at work with these things in a moment .-- It was painful to note how readily these town-bred men had taken to the free life of the camp and the desert The nomadic instinct is a human instinct; it was born with Adam and transmitted through the patriarchs, and after thirty centuries of steady effort, civilization has not educated it entirely out of us yet.

It has a charm which, once tasted, a man will yearn to taste again.
The nomadic instinct can not be educated out of an Indian at all.
The Jordan journey being approved, our dragoman was notified.
At nine in the morning the caravan was before the hotel door and we were at breakfast.

There was a commotion about the place.