Word: caravaneers
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...Before Mottke was born his jealous mother had thrown a bottle of vitriol on his father, burning the flesh off his face. In return, the father married her so she would always be on hand when he wanted to beat her. Mottke fled from this violent household with a caravan of traveling acrobats and dancers. Billed as a strong man, he fitted into a wandering life, fell in love with Mary, dark-eyed, passionate little dancer. But Mary was Kanarik's girl, and the money she was given by village admirers went to him. Mottke was too jealous...
...hundred miles and three-quarters of an hour after the takeoff they were through the black mountain peaks; below them lay Aduwa, scene of Italy's most galling defeat 39 years before, junction of the caravan routes of northern Ethiopia; Aduwa, to capture which Benito Mussolini had sent 280,000 men 2,500 miles at a cost of $160,000,000. Sprawled over three hills Aduwa was a collection of low-walled huts, some thatched, some roofed with corrugated iron, that housed some 3,000 souls. Count Ciano squinted down through his bomb sights and pulled the trigger...
...Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect their pets. Blandly incorrigible, the Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land. To Badshah Gul, son of the Haji of Turangzai, toward whose mountain plain the Gandab Road seemed directly pointed, the road looked...
Travelogger Lowell Thomas: "The way is not broad, but it's long-(and it was more so 40 years ago)-from Peking through inner China, along the caravan trail of silk, past the Kunlung Mountains, Afghanistan, through Eastern Turkistan and the Khyber Pass and into India...
...part in last week's shooting remained uncertain. Some dispatches had him on his way to the scene of the fighting "by caravan" from Tibet. But certain it was that on the scene was an old and faithful Wu mi, Wu's infatuated right-hand man, Mr. Pai Chien-wu, himself a descendant of an 8th Century poet. What happened...