Today is the 176th birthday of Mark Twain, the great American writer of not only fiction but also travel stories.
In Egypt, on his way to see the pyramids at Giza, Twain recorded this observation about riding a donkey in “Innocents Abroad”:
“Nobody can steer a donkey, and some collided with camels, dervishes, effendis, asses, beggars and every thing else that offered to the donkeys a reasonable chance for a collision.”
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