Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — Camel Caravans- [ARTICLE]

Camel Caravans-

Nearly 90,000 Camels are used in the vilayet of Bagdad as beasts of burden, and with donkeys they form tbe only

means of carrying goods to inland points: Camel caravans go in “strings,'* seven camels to the string, with two men in charge. For a camel 450 pounds is a good load, the pack being divided into halves,