Complex sentence: When cultured, twice a year the plants are cut down, dried in the sun, stripped and packed in palm-leaf bags and sent on camels to Essouan and Darao, then up the Nile to Cairo or else to Red Sea ports.
Split into simpler sentences: When cultured, twice a year the plants are cut down, dried in the sun, stripped and packed in palm-leaf bags. They are then sent on camels to Essouan and Darao, then up the Nile to Cairo or else to Red Sea ports.