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-coloured dresses may be seen prattling away on the steps, or carrying water in the characteristic earthenware bowls on their heads, housebuilding, or farming; for here woman takes her share with man. It is all very pictorial and fascinating, a moving color picture, striking and interesting.
A string of camels winds its way through the narrow street way, their color nearly matching the brick wall brown, their attendants dressed in bright blue dungarees; along they move stately and dignified, out of the village, along the green prickly pear hedged road and away onto the yellow sands of the plain. There must be at least 500 of them. They are all heavily loaded and are moving forward to the front line dump. Hail to the Gypo and his camel: without them, progress against the Turk would have been slow indeed, Ay!. well