Camelestrian

Both were mounted upon camels. One, perched upon his high and narrow saddle, with his feet upon the animal’s neck, after the usual manner of “camelestrians.”

1856, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, The Sweet South, London: Printed for Private Circulation: Volume 2, Chapter 14, p. 173, We met several camelestrians on our road, and horsemen and assmen; and the scenery in many parts was very pretty.

In Khedive Avenue [Khartoum] […] is a statue by E. Onslow Ford, of General Gordon on an Indian camel. So far as I know this is the world’s only camelestrian statue.