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unsaddle and sjfrooin them on return to camp, also to water and 

 feed tliem. In camp tlio camels were picketed to long ropes by 

 t licit- head collars ; but on an emergency could be securely tethered 

 by the reins being fastened round the knee. Extra camels were 

 used to facilitate a march on the '' ride and tie " system, an opera- 

 tion practised once with fair success. Kach camel was required 

 (with 2 soldiers up) to carry 418^ lbs. plus saddle and saddle bags 

 and 10 lbs. of grain for the day in bags. On 24th March, a forage 

 and water convoy of 225 camels sent to Hasheen was attacked 

 and over 100 camels with their loads lost. On 2nd April in the 

 advance on Tamai out of G5 horses, 171 nniles, and 1,030 camels 

 which went out only 1 mule and 1 camel, which were killed in 

 action, and 2 mules and 2 camels, which died, did not return. 

 The force of 1,850 horses, 1,700 mules, and 7,000 camels required 

 1 10 tons of forage per diem beside reserves. That for the horses 

 was chiefly from P^ngland as pressed hay, compressed forage, 

 oats, hay cake, and grain cake. Enormous quantities of camel 

 forage were received from Egypt and India. 



The distribution of the Transport animals v/as as follows : — 



1. Indian Transport camels 2,500. 



2. No. 7 Coy. Transport & Commissariat Corps 32 mules 900 camels. 



3 , 3 ,, „ „ „ ,, 30 mules 1,100 camels & 90 horses. 



4 „ 5 „ „ „ „ „ ... 600 „ 



5. „ 12 „ „ „ „ „ ... 600 „ 



6. Hospital Transport „ „ „ 220 „ 330 „ 



7- No. 17 Coy. Transport & Commissariat Corps unspecified. 



Total... 1,050 ,. 6.800 „ 250 „ 



Appendix 111. 



J. H. Steel contributes to the 6th volume of the Quarterly 

 Journal of Veterinary Science in India, p. 39 e^ seq. his experiences 

 at a Camp of Exercise, as follows : — 



4. The Camels were arranged in lines on the southern portion 

 of the ground occu])ied. All were males and very many of them 

 " must." They were often very poor in condition, which was to 

 an extent increased by the fact that those of them which were 

 used to Jowari refused the indifferent Khaggi straw supplied to 

 them as fodder. They began to take a little when the fodder wa.s 

 improved in quality and on finding tb.at nothing else as fodder 



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