. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . these pads are notprovided by nature, but are the result of often-repeated is true enough that if we use our hands much for hard w^ork, suchas digging or wood-cutting, the skin of the palms becomes hard andhorny, and this certainly is the result of constant pressure from thehandles of our tools. But the animal is born with the pads. The
. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . these pads are notprovided by nature, but are the result of often-repeated is true enough that if we use our hands much for hard w^ork, suchas digging or wood-cutting, the skin of the palms becomes hard andhorny, and this certainly is the result of constant pressure from thehandles of our tools. But the animal is born with the pads. They donot come to it after it has been working for man for some little time, 196 THE GIRAFFE—CAMEL—BUIFALO and so we have direcl proof that they are really a natural gift, providedin order that the animal may be suited to the work which it has toperform. Unless the camel could kneel on these pads, it would be uselessto man, for it is so tall that it could neither be mounted nor loadedwhen standing- upright, and so would not be of service either forriding or for carrying. As it is, however, it is an animal whose valuecan scarcely be held too highly, and well deserves the poetical namewhich the Arabs have given to it, the Ship of the CALLTXC; 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 itsinvaluable 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, theirall. It supplies them with every article of primary necessity—withfood, clothing, habitation, fuel, and the means of transport. The flesh THE GIRAFFE—CAMEL—BUFFALO 197 of the young camel is inferior to beef or mutton, but it is savory, andnot difficult of digestion. The female yields an abundance of milk,almost as nutritious and agreeable to the taste as that of the hair
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