Camel Travelling. 37 



CHAPTER II. 



THE RIVER ESSENTIAL ALIKE TO MAN, 

 BEAST AND BIRD. 



IT is remarkable how regular a stride and how even a 

 pace the baggage camel will keep up hour after hour. 

 Two and a half miles an hour is his pace, and twenty 

 miles is for him a good day's journey. As the camels 

 carried our food, tents, beds, and indeed all our baggage, 

 we had to arrange our day's march according to theirs, 

 our procedure being generally as follows : Rising just 

 before the sun (about 5 o'clock) we breakfasted, struck 

 tents, packed up and got away about seven, marched for 

 five hours, then rested during the heat of the day, and 

 marched again for some two or three hours in the after- 

 noon, getting into camp as the sun was going down, 

 about 6.30. We travelled thus to a point some ten 

 miles south of a town named Kawa, on the east bank 



