40 THE CAMEL 



and some few specialities in the form of the pancreas, 

 but it will be sufficient for our purpose to notice the 

 absence of the ' gall bladder ' as an appendix to the 

 former ; this proves that as in the horse a continuous 

 flow of bile is intended, and we consequently infer that 

 digestion in both animals is a continuous and not an 

 intermittent process, as is more or less the case with 

 those that possess ' gall bladders.' 



Kidneys The kidneys are glandular bodies situated in the 



abdomen under the loins ; they perform an excreting 

 office, and it is to be particularly remarked that the 

 urine of the camel corresponds with the dung in being 

 rich in ammonia. 



staling Another peculiarity about the camel is the way in 



which he stales. He does not discharge his water like 

 a horse or ass in one continual stream, and have done 

 with it ; nor does he stop to do it, but he dribbles a 

 few drops at a time, and keeps stalking steadily on 

 then a few more drops, and so on ; and he does this 

 even when he is standing about. Parthey says that 

 the camel urinates very scantily, and does this at 

 regular intervals, so that Bedawins and Arabs are 

 enabled by this means to trace the direction or route 

 taken by the caravan. In 1886-87, when I was in 

 command of the 2nd Camel Corps in the Egyptian 

 Army, we were stationed at Mograkeh on the Nile 

 then our southernmost outpost, about a hundred miles 

 south of Wady Haifa. The main body of the Dervishes 

 was at Dongola, with an outpost at Abou Fatmeh, 

 while their scouting parties used to come to Eas Dalgo, 

 which was fifty-one, and sometimes to Absarat, which 

 was only forty miles from Mograkeh. I was out 



