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surely this reason in itself should be a more than 

 sufficient inducement. 



Eight working hours in twenty-four, and at the Natural 

 outside certainly not more than ten, are sufficient for hours of 

 camels carrying fair average loads, in the pink of con- 

 dition and well looked after, for they require at least 

 eight hours' grazing and six hours' rest. This applies 

 equally to riding camels, who should not be made to 

 carry more than 250 Ib. including rider, and who 

 with this weight, and properly ridden and husbanded, 

 will travel from fifty to sixty miles a day for a week,, 

 and forty for a fortnight to three weeks ; while with 

 300 Ib. they can keep up an average of thirty miles a 

 day for a long distance. A camel for a long journey is 

 far less fatiguing than a horse, once you get accus- 

 tomed to his peculiar swinging mode of progression. 

 As a rule, if pressed to do more than eight hours' riding 

 on a long rough journey, unless you ride at night, he . 

 does not get sufficient time to graze, as of course when 

 you are on the move he gets nothing, except a mouth- 

 ful snatched now and then, and he requires six hours' 

 grazing at least. If possible, he should be fed morning 

 and evening. On service of course he must be tied up 

 at night, and even in time of peace during cold weather 

 he ought to be brought in if grazing, and blanketed up. 



The baggager is a slow walker, his average pace in ^ aces of 

 a long journey is two and a half miles per hour, and 

 under favourable conditions, especially when marching 

 at night, or in the cool of the evening, and over firm 

 sand, he can easily increase it to two and three-quarter 

 miles ; and in my experience I have known him at times 

 to do three, and even over three miles, when Mr. 



