Autochrome by Franklin Price Knott 



A SUDANESE AND HIS RACING CAMEL 



While not so rare as the white elephant or the white rhinoceros, white camels are a novelty 

 to American eyes for they seldom find their way into circus caravans. This clipper-rigged 

 "ship of the desert" and his swarthy skipper were photographed near El Djem, in southern 

 Tunisia. A hundred miles a day is not an extraordinary distance feat for the mehari, as the 

 racing camel is called. 



