For half a century, the cameleers played a crucial role in the exploration and development of the Australian outback, ferrying supplies across the continent. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Afghan-Australian relations can be traced back to the 1860s when Afghan cameleers came to Australia. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Consequently we were compelled to send back four camels and two cameleers from our next camping-ground to the Kahafah. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Whilst in hard work he had been half-starved, the Jeráfín Bedawin of the neighbourhood having disappeared with their flocks; he had been terribly worried by the cameleers, and he had been at perpetual feud with the miserable quarrymen. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Granicki's note, but on the morning of the next day, when the wild man arrived at the head of six cameleers firing their rifles, Feliks and the others watched with amazement and delight as a team of eight gaily decorated camels drew a huge, improvised wagon through the palace gates, bearing inside a young couple who were obviously to be married at Lancut. ❋ Michener, James (1983)
A strange country, where the merchants spoke like princes and the princes like cameleers, and the ❋ Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne (1908)
A serious altercation then took place between the governor of Wochnee and the cameleers. ❋ Dr. Henri Blanc (1871)
As the cameleers were passing close to the village, on ❋ Dr. Henri Blanc (1871)
The cameleers, having unladen their camels, were going to depart, when a servant of one of the officers sent to receive us by his Majesty arrived. ❋ Dr. Henri Blanc (1871)
On this occasion many of the cameleers were unprovided with ropes: boxes, portmanteau-bags, were strewed all over the road, and night was far advanced before the last camel reached Moncullou. ❋ Dr. Henri Blanc (1871)
In order that the camels might start in time, our tents were packed early; sometimes we would sit for hours waiting the good pleasure of the cameleers under the scanty shade of a mimosa, vainly endeavouring to find in its dwarfed foliage a relief from the burning rays of the sun. ❋ Dr. Henri Blanc (1871)
But the governor and the officer's servant had also been consulting together: seeing the cameleers departing, they went to the village, and, as it happened to be market-day, soon collected a good number of soldiers and peasants. ❋ Dr. Henri Blanc (1871)
I can understand the difficulties the cameleers raised, as the road is exceedingly bad for camels, passing as it does over two high and steep mountains and across two narrow ravines densely overgrown with tall bamboos. ❋ Dr. Henri Blanc (1871)
It's fitting, therefore, that these Afghan cameleers and their "ships" are immortalised in the name of The Ghan, for it is more than just a train a journey on it is more a cruise than a rail trip. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The slight horses of the Cossacks were unable to support the weight of heavy Polish dragoons and a body of trained _cameleers_ (that is, cuirassiers mounted on camels); hardy they were, but not strong, nor a match for their antagonists in weight; and their extraordinary efforts through the last few days to gain their present position, had greatly diminished their powers for effecting an escape. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
The slight horses of the Cossacks were unable to support the weight of heavy Polish dragoons and a body of trained _cameleers_ 10 ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
