so 



but there is good scope for more extensive operations of this kind. 

 Camels are not expensive animals to buy, they are capable of 

 doing an enormous amount of pack work; they are inexpensive to 

 feed on service, and only in very few countries has fodder to be 

 carried for them. When properly selected for service and well 

 managed they witlistand the exigencies of a campaign fairly well. 

 Thus there is much to be said in favour of camel transport, but 

 I. V. S. Oliphant strongly advises that ''if occasion should arise 

 in the future only 'local ' carriage be used, the animals remaining 

 in the hands of their owners and carriage paid for by weight." It 

 was proved that the government drivers took little or no interest 

 in their charge in Afghanistan and the owners of the hired class 

 were little better — preferring compensation to carrying out their 

 contract. The system sugre-ested by Mr. Oliphant, too, would do 

 away with the costly, ponderous operations of a " Camel Compen- 

 sation Committee,'^ greatly to the advantage of Government. 



Nunn informs us that the Bikaneer Camel in the Shahpur dis- 

 trict is worth Rs. 200, and other breeds Rs. 80 — 50 according to 

 their carrying power, but the price has much risen since the 

 Afghan war. In Montgomery a ganda (or gi'ey camel of superior 

 class) is worth Rs. 100 — 120, and an inferior camel Rs. 90 — 50. 

 He gives {Vide Quarterly Journal of Veterinary Science in India, 

 Vol. Ill, p. 162,) the following:— 



Names applied to Camels of different sizes : — 



Second 

 cut. 



... 61 

 Incisor y Cliauga 



Daclii, Dugan, Troker. 



Third 

 and 



Incisor 

 Tusk cut. 



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9 Armosh, Arut. 



Chliio'O'a. Chicya. 



Vcsh, Nesli. 



