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stomachs, for even a camel must feed regularly, and 

 have food inside him before he can chew the cud. 



I might write a great deal more on these excep- 

 tionally valuable subjects, but I could do no good. 

 Nothing more that I could say would add greater weight 

 to what I have already said, or express it more forcibly. 

 If I have at all events succeeded in impressing on you 

 the vital importance of watering and feeding camels 

 during ordinary times so as to better fit them to cope 

 with an emergency, as also the common-sense view 

 that they only require to be treated as ordinary quad- 

 rupeds, I have gained my object, and will proceed 

 with the next chapter. 



