252 THE CAMEL 



CHAPTEE XII 



MANAGEMENT 



UNDER this heading every single subject in connection 

 with a camel should be included as a matter of course, 

 but those on ' watering,' c feeding,' loading,' ' march- 

 ing and carrying power,' ' ailments, causes and 

 remedies,' and ' equipment ' are so very important, and 

 I had so much to say about each of them, that I 

 thought it better to treat them separately. Of course, 

 as I have lost no opportunity of pointing out all 

 through these pages, it is by general management 

 and supervision only that full value can be obtained 

 from a camel. Hence the superiority of the natives 

 over us. It is on this, and this alone, embracing 

 as it does every point in connection with the camel, 

 that the efficiency of transport can be maintained ; and 

 this result depends entirely on the formation of a 

 system, so thorough in every detail, and so essentially 

 practical in every respect based, in fact, on practice 

 and experience, as to attain as near perfection as pos- 

 sible. And until such a system is introduced as a 

 permanency, and a special class of men trained for it, 

 so long will our transport remain as it always has been, 

 and as it still is inefficient, and utterly unable to 

 grapple with a sudden crisis, because it is built on a 



