Show I A A Desert Deset Caravan Carvan A great caravan in march is a superb spectacle spec spec- tacie abash too Leo infrequent now no 1 in northern S Africa AfrIca At first Arabs alone abono alon can detect it It a aj 1 j r I mere lost in lu a dusty halo whence it I emerges a at length a tan colored tawny mass man pos poa- of a strange motion motoi the swarming of A 1 tt i thousand lives in one 11 Here ere and there 1 ettes of straggling camels stand profiled like 1 hieroglyphics on on the nery liery tery sky as 8 In insensibly S trailing its It snake like curves the convoy ad ad- A- A AI vances I Hours flours after being sighted it passes pases in slow defile led by a vanguard of blooded camels I whose gait and bearing have hive an air of arro- arro arro I j gance Ranee not cu tomary tomar to that race rae of ot proletarians ians lane the chieftains sitting aloft in their floatIng float float- Ing lug burnooses alert lerL of eye with gun in hand band Statuesque guardians of the convoy treasure i Behind them the camels of burdel burden exhausted less by loads lends than with the fatigues of the journey their legs and ancl croppers bald Rn and scarred by blow blows str struggle gle forward languidly thrusting out the tongue tonge as a they press their hu huge e spongy feet In tho the yielding ground What resignation in their soft soft staring eyes I Verily no philosopher knows better belter than these poor por brutes how inane are the revolts against inexorable fate ft I Near at band hand walk the drivers their emaciated ema em emI elated features illumined by eyes of of fl fire fr and I white gleaming teeth piercing their parched lips Of all al who have started with the car caravan cars cara van how how- many have hare have fallen falen by the way abandoned aban aban- I to t agonize agone alone in the te desolation I II I.- I. I |