Word: caravanned
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...people who preferred spells and amulets to the drugs of Western science, he traveled with the Mecca pilgrimage from Damascus as far as Medain Salih, later wandering through the vast, waterless marches of Central Arabia until he reached the hills and oasis of Kheybar-then south again with a caravan to the Mecca region, ending at the English Consulate at Jidda-a two years' saga of fortitude. And every stone, every plant, every beast on the way he observed with an eye as impartial as an angel's, set down the history and peculiarities of every tribe...
...undertaking is of considerable potential importance, since it will open new means of communication with the Central Asian caravan routes of the southern shore of the Caspian, and so stimulate trade with the Middle East...
...Five French caterpillar tractors have arrived in Timbuctoo after a two thousand mile trip across the African desert, accomplishing in twenty-one days what takes a camel caravan three months...
Tugurt-to-Timbuctoo may never become as famous as Berlin-to-Bagdad, or even Cape-to-Cairo, but it has justified itself in the eyes of the press, if only because it has provided the headline: "Caterpillars Conquer Camel Caravan...
...York before the freight trains stop running. . . . But we'll be there, one and all--whether by ox-cart or dirigible, by camel or the Boston Elevated. And when the sun rises in New Jersey on November fifth, it will be shaded by the dust of a caravan from out of the east, more brilliant than any Marco Polo ever encountered on his hike to Cathay...