Scribner's magazine . ey may be the de-scendants of the domesticated seems probable that long before the building of the Pyramidsthe people of the desertshad learned how to profitfrom the veiy pecuHar qual-ities of this strangely pro-vided beast, which in severaldistinct ways is singularlyfitted to serve the needs ofman in arid lands. Thelarge and well-padded footof tliis creature is well adapt-ed for treading a sui-face un-softened by vegetation. ItspecuHar stomach enablesit to store water in sucha manner that it can go fordays without drink. In thehumps upon its back, as in natural
Scribner's magazine . ey may be the de-scendants of the domesticated seems probable that long before the building of the Pyramidsthe people of the desertshad learned how to profitfrom the veiy pecuHar qual-ities of this strangely pro-vided beast, which in severaldistinct ways is singularlyfitted to serve the needs ofman in arid lands. Thelarge and well-padded footof tliis creature is well adapt-ed for treading a sui-face un-softened by vegetation. ItspecuHar stomach enablesit to store water in sucha manner that it can go fordays without drink. In thehumps upon its back, as in natural pack-saddles, it may hai^est a share of the nu-triment which it obtains from occasionalgood j^asturages, the store being laidaway in the form of fat which may re-turn to the blood when the creaturewould otherwise starve. So importanthave these peculiarities been found bymen who have domesticated the camel,that on them have rested many of thegreatest features of race development inthe historv of our kind. In the terri-. Egyptian Sheep.
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