THE GIRAFFE—CAMEL—BUFFALO 
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is so full of trails of animals of all sorts and it is so difficult to tell 
fresh ones from the old, that hunting is usually dependent on a sight 
of the animals themselves. 
The Camel.— This famous and useful animal, familiarly known 
to Eastern peoples as the “Ship of the Desert/’ is of incalculable value 
in crossing the hot sands of Africa, where no other animal can exist. 
Day after day it can travel on, browsing merely on the dry and 
withered thorns that are scattered here and there, and requiring little 
other food in order to enable it to perform its labors. And this is 
THE CAMEL 
Peculiarly adapted for travel in the desert 
owing to a reason so singular and astonishing that it is hard to 
believe. 
The fact is, that during its long and painful journey the camel 
lives principally upon its own hump. Strange and impossible as it 
appears, this is nothing more than the bare truth; the animal lives 
upon its own hump. All we can tell is that, as time wears on, the 
hump gradually wastes away, and, though large and fat when the 
journey was begun, is little more than mere skin when it is ended. 
When, once more, the camel can rest from its labors, and obtain 
