You hire a native driver, who costs practically nothing, and he keeps with the baggage.

No one asks any questions, and when you halt for a day or two, you have comforts.

Of course, with a British regiment you are cut down to the last ounce, but with us it is altogether different.

There being only three or four white officers to each regiment, the few extra camels in the train make no appreciable difference.

Besides, these black fellows consider it quite natural and proper that their white officers should fare in a very different way from themselves; whereas a British Tommy would be inclined to grumble if he saw his officers enjoying luxuries, while he himself had to rough it." As the horse only cost three pounds, and the camel only five, Gregory's store of money was not seriously affected by the purchases.