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is so full of trails of animals of all sorts and it is so difficult to tell 

 fresh ones from the old, that hunting is usually dependent on a sight 

 of the animals themselves. 



The Camel.— This famous and useful animal, familiarly known 

 to Eastern peoples as the "Ship of the Desert," is of incalculable value 

 in crossing the hot sands of Africa, where no other animal can exist. 

 Day after day it can travel on, browsing merely on the dry and 

 withered thorns that are scattered here and there, and requiring little 

 other food in order to enable it to perform its labors. And this is 



THE CAMEL 

 Peculiarly adapted for travel in the desert 



owmg to a 



reason so singular and astonishing that it is hard to 



believe. 



The fact is, that during its long and painful journey the camel 

 lives principally upon its own hump. Strange and impossible as it 

 appears, this is nothing more than the bare truth; the animal lives 

 upon its own hump. All we can tell is that, as time wears on, the 

 hump gradually wastes away, and, though large and fat when the 

 journey was begun, is little more than mere skin w^hen it is ended. 



When, once more, the camel can rest from its labors, and obtain 



