338 ENDURANCE OF CAMELS 



where the camel is all things to all men, except only as an 

 article of food, one has to take a species of interest in even 

 him. I have been able, I think, to gauge the horse fairly 

 well; I cannot say that I know more about camels than 

 the superficial and apt-to-be unreliable hearsay of his fel- 

 low-man, so to speak, has given me. But I have been 

 told by English army officers in Egypt, who have become 

 familiar with what camels can do, that the performance 

 heretofore quoted, of over one hundred miles a day, kept 

 up for a long period, is not beyond belief. 



