Carries Large Loads
A camel bas twice the earrying power of an ox. With an ordinary load of 400 pounds he can travel twelve orfourteen days without water, ffoing forty miles a day. They aro fit to work at 6 old, luit Uu-ir stivnirth beg-ins to decline :it 86, althoupr" they usnally live to 40. The Tártara have herds ol these animáis, oíteo 1,000 belongii fto one family. They were numeroua In antiquity, for the patriarch .lol had 3,000. The Tirabuctoo or Meharri breed is remarkable for speed, and used only for couriers, going 800 miles in eight days with a meal of dates or graiu at nightfall. ie - A ■'simple" Idtocy.
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