They finally unearthed one, though, of which the M'zabites were trying to get rid-the real ship of the desert, the classical, standard camel, bald, woe-begone, with a long Bedouin head, and its hump, become limp in consequence of unduly long fasts, hanging melancholically on one side.
"Tartarin of Tarascon"
Alphonse Daudet