"We shall take our women with us, or we shall not go at all." "I think it is rather you who talk the thing without sense," the black man answered angrily.

"How can you ask my companions and me to do that which must end in failure?
For years we have waited for such a chance as this, and now that it has come, you wish us to throw it away owing to this foolishness about the women." "What have we promised you if we come back to Egypt ?" asked Cochrane.
"Two hundred Egyptian pounds and promotion in the army--all upon the word of an Englishman." "Very good.

Then you shall have three hundred each if you can make some new plan by which you can take the women with you." Tippy Tilly scratched his woolly head in his perplexity.
"We might, indeed, upon some excuse, bring three more of the faster camels round to this place.

Indeed, there are three very good camels among those which are near the cooking fire.

But how are we to get the women upon them ?--and if we had them upon them, we know very well that they would fall off when they began to gallop.