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THE CAMEL. 
^3.1ted as the sounds ceased, nor could we 
them forward until their ears were cheer- 
with the M'onted music. I have used the 
^ord measured, not as matter of jioetry but of 
^ct. Their step is so measured, and like 
^lock-work, that on a plain you know almost 
a yard the distance they will go in a given 
: their paee is three miles an hour. One 
^^luel always goes first, another second, ano- 
, third, and so on ; and if this order is 
*^terfered with, the beasts will become dis- 
'^*‘derly, and will not march.” 
I^urckhardt acquaints us with the reason 
travelling in a single file. “ The Souakin 
^^I’avans,” says he, “like those of the Hedjaz, 
accustomed to travel in one long file ; the 
^Syptians, on the contrary, march with a wide- 
^^tended front ; but the former method is 
^ ^ferable, because, if airy of the loads get 
of order, they can be adjusted by leading 
^ camel out of the line, before those behind 
