This was then a couch covered and provided with curtains...

This was then a couch covered and provided with curtains, and it was carried upon a camel back. In the stations and halts of the army, the camel driver made his camel to sit down, and then he himself went aside, leaving his passenger free to get down the litter for a little walk, or some rest and refreshment. It happened so that in a station, the cameleer lowered down his camel for A"YESHEH to come out of her litter, and he went afar, so as to not invade the privacy of the mother of believers.

She dismounted and went to a distance out of sight in search of a private lavatory. When she returned, she found that she had left a precious ornament which was a gift of her mother, in that remote place. She hastened to get the…