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and strength on which the Arab owner makes such extravagant demands. The fact that these poor sad-faced brutes can travel thirty miles a day and carry loads weighing eight hundred pounds, and do it on such food as they can find en route, seems little short of marvelous. Moreover, the camel carries his own supply of water and provisions with him. He has been known to travel fifty miles a day for five successive days without drinking. His hump, we know, is not put on for picturesqueness' sake; it is the camel's luncheon basket! When on long journeys food cannot be had, he simply lives on his own hump by a mysterious process of absorption, reaching his destination with a flat, humpless back and a contented stomach. And even a dead camel is rich in possibilities. His hide makes splendid leather; his coarser hair is woven into cloth
