Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — Ship of the Desert [ARTICLE]

Ship of the Desert

Because of Its peculiar swaying motion m- walking, the camel has beqn called the “ship of the desert” This title may also haye some reference to the extreme stupidity and passivity of the animal, says Popular Science Monthly, which submits to great loads, which it will often carry for days at a time without stopping for food or drink, with no more urging than a ship would require from the hands of its pilot The manner in which the drivers hobble the camels when they stop for n fest is interesting. They do not de-, pend upon stakes driven in the deep, yielding sand, but simply double back and tie one end of the forelegs of the animal, so that it can He down or rise up, but cannqt move from the spot