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and that as soon as he observed he was being followed, 
he fled like the wind, and did not stop for two or three 
days. He had a positive terror of the smoke of a camp- 
fire ; and the shepherds declared that no sooner did he 
scent burning wood than he went off altogether, and kept 
away a long time. Once, a long time ago, somebody 
brought a couple of tame camels down the river, but 
HEAD OF A TAME CAMEL 
even after they were freed from their pack-saddles, the 
wild camels avoided them like the pest, apparently con- 
sidering them enemies quite as dangerous as tigers and 
wolves. The shepherds declared further, that the wild 
camel notices at once the peg and cord in the tame 
camel’s nostril, with which he is disciplined, and im- 
mediately scents his congener s burden, whether flour 
or meal or sheep’s-wool, or whatever it may be, and 
