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CAMEL 



the Medes and Persians. In the beginning of 

 his rule he had his brother Smerdis secretly 

 put to death, because he feared his influence. 

 In the fifth year of his reign he invaded Egypt, 

 conquering the whole kingdom within six 

 months, but of his army of 50,000 men sent 

 to take possession of Ammon, in the Libyan 

 Desert, not one returned. He likewise failed 

 to conquer the Ethiopians. Learning that a 

 usurper who resembled his murdered brother 

 Smerdis had seized the throne, he started back 

 to Persia, but died on the way. According 

 to the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses 

 was a cruel ruler whose conduct was almost 

 that of a madman. 



CAM 'DEN, N. J., the county seat of Camden 

 County, is situated in the southwestern part 



Camden is a railway center of importance, 

 and shipping and manufacturing are extensive 

 industries, the total annual value of manufac- 

 tured products being over $49,000,000. More 

 than 5,000 men are employed in the shipbuild- 

 ing industry, and 9,000 by the Victor Talking 

 Machine Company. Among other manufac- 

 tures are canned soups, foundry products, ma- 

 chinery, cotton and woolen goods, oil cloth, 

 curtains and embroidery, leather, boots and 

 shoes, steel pens, lumber, chemicals and paint. 

 In the suburbs of the city are large truck gar- 

 dens. 



A Quaker settlement along the river at this 

 point, where there was a crossing, was organized 

 in 1773 and named in honor of the Earl of 

 Camden. It became a city in 1828. Walt 



of the state, on the east bank of the Delaware 

 River and opposite Philadelphia, with which 

 it is connected by several lines of steam fer- 

 ries. It is the terminus of the Atlantic City 

 and the West Jersey & Seashore railroads and 

 of divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The 

 population in 1910 was 94,538; in 1915 it was 

 104,349. 



Camden occupies an area of seven square 

 miles on nearly level ground, from Cooper 

 River on the north to Newton Creek on the 

 south, a stream which separates it from 

 Gloucester City. Among the prominent build- 

 ings and institutions are the county court- 

 house, city hall, Carnegie and other public 

 libraries, Y. M. C. A. building, club buildings, 

 Homeopathic and Municipal hospitals, Elks' 

 Home, Home for Friendless Children and the 

 West Jersey Orphanage. The city has Forest 

 Hill Park and many small parked squares. 



Whitman made his home at Camden from 1873 

 until the time of his death in 1892. C.M.C. 



CAMEL, kam'el, "the ship of the desert," 

 one of the most useful, though one of the 

 most strangely-formed animals. The camel's 

 peculiarities make it valuable to traders in the 

 great deserts of Africa and Asia. In its stomach 

 it has pouches which enable it to store water, 

 and it can therefore go days without drinking. 

 On the back of the Arabian camel, the species 

 which makes its home in Arabia, North Africa 

 and India, is a large hump; the Bactrian 

 camel, of Central Asia, has two humps. In 

 both species of the animal the humps are of 

 muscle, fat and flesh, and if the camel has to 

 go a long time without food it keeps alive by 

 absorbing the food elements in them. The 

 foot of the camel has only two toes, and its 

 broad base adapts it to traveling in the sand. 

 On the bottoms of its feet, on its knees and on 





