Musings on Camel’s Eyelids and Chicken’s Ears
crates | March 23, 2009
I came across a reference to camel eyes while reading a work by David King (Skeletons on the Zahara), who wrote about the crew of an American ship who were shipwrecked on the African Sahara in the early nineteenth century. Since the eyelid is very thin, the camel often closes this eyelid in sandstorms and [...]