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PAGE 257 . _ ... her great camel Alboufaki _ There is a singular and laboured description of a camel in the poem of _ Tarafa _ ; but Alboufaki possessed qualities appropriate to himself , and which rendered him but little less conspicuous than the deformed dun camel of Aad . PAGE 257 . _ ... to set forward , notwithstanding it was noon _ The employment of woodfellers was accounted of all others the most toilsome , as those occupied in it were compelled to forgo that mid-day cessation with which other labourers were indulged . Inatulla speaks proverbially of `` woodmen in the meridian hour , scarce able to raise the arms of languor . '' The guides of Carathis being of this occupation , she adroitly availed herself of it to urge them forward , without allowing them that repose during the mid-day fervour which travellers in these climates always enjoyed , and which was deemed so essential to the preservation of their health . PAGE 258 .