Baluchi carpet-wallah kebabs

In the spring, when the thaw began, and at the beginning of each cool season, the camel caravans, or kafilas, came down from the hills of the Frontier to the Frontier Province and to the plains of the Punjab. The tinkling bells of the camels’ harnesses woke us at dawn. Long lines of humped beasts, tied head to tail, swayed slowly down the mountain road, groaning and grunting with expressions of scorn and disdain on their faces.