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Title: Adventure--travel--exploration
Identifier: adventuretravele01unge (find matches)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Unger, Frederic William, 1875- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology
Publisher: (Philadelphia, The John C. Winston co. )
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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196 THE GIRAFFE-CAMEL—BUFFALO and so we have direct proof that they are really a natural gift, provided in order that the animal may be suited to the work which it has to perform. Unless the camel could kneel on these pads, it would be useless to man, for it is so tall that it could neither be mounted nor loaded when standing upright, and so would not be of service either for riding or for carrying. As it is, however, it is an animal whose value can scarcely be held too highly, and well deserves the poetical name which the Arabs have given to it, the "Ship of the Desert."
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CALLING THE CAMELS The laborious and abstemious camel, like the palm, is all-essen- tial to the desert, as the desert is all-essential to it. Without its invaluable aid, the wastes of the Sahara, or of Libya and Nubia, would be impassable. It is properly styled the "treasure of the East;" and to the wandering tribes it is, in truth, their wealth, their life, their all. It supplies them with every article of primary necessity—with food, clothing, habitation, fuel, and the means of transport. The flesh

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