Camel

Glyn Leonard Arthur

Description

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Camel was, as we know', a native of Arabia or of the regions adjacent, and could have easily crossed over into Greece in those prehistoric days when Europe and Africa were joined together, and the Mediterranean was a huge lake.

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243786381
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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pages are the result teen years practical observation and exp erience Camels in India Afghanistan E gypt and the Soudan and the elaboration and exp ansion diaries kept by me di erent campaigns under every variety extreme condition and circumstance M y obj them for publication ect in is mani fold and obvious as a p erusal the work will show In a few words To awaken and to stim ate an interest in as wel as to encourag e the prop er tre atment Camels under all phases and conditions To explain the variou s uses to which both the riding and the baggage Camel can b e put To act as a guide to every soldier in the above and also in the most useful and most practical doctrines transport promote and imp rove the breeding the animal as to ensure the production a sup erior class riding and baggage Camel To urge a more univers al u se both riding and b aggage Camels espe ci ally in Au stralia and in the s outhern and central portions Africa To advocate the establishment of a system by which and can b e e ected and by which

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No can be utilised with the soundest and most tical results These are questions which not o y from a mili tary but from a national and even international point view require immediate looking into and a serious attention to which c annot fail directly to b enefit the animal and indirectly humanity To accomplish this the more readily also as an to the young soldier who slikes the dry detail a purely technical work I my besthave done to make it readable by clothing it in plain and simple language and by rendering it interesting through the relation incide nts and necdotes At the same time I venture t e that it willo hop find favour with all those who take an unselfish interest in animals and with zoologists as well For though am not myself in the strict sense and have not written from a scientifioint viewc p I can claim without hesitatio n the undoubted advantages having studi ed deeply the customs and characteristics this little known and strangely unsymp athetic animal during a long close and continuous contact with him and of having done purely and eminently pra tical principle s In laying down rules and in suggesting principles I themb asing altogether conditionally have done entirely on the broad principle that rules and regulations depend natura ly circums ance and the nature the case and are therefore subj ect to alteration I have endeavoured look athowever to each question from all sides and from various stand points M uch the anatomical information I gleaned from interesting conversations that I Nileheld during the

P E FAC camp aign with M aj or I I S and C ap tains NN and I I S Departthe Army Veterinary ment with whom I fre quently came into close contact Also from an essay Camels by Veterinary Surge on which app eared many years ago in the narian clear and conci se in its views that I have taken the liberty quoting several extracts from it Fina y to M r M L SS Cap e Town I am extremely indebte d for his kind assistance in placing his library and classic al knowledge at my disposal To him and to others who have incidentally help ed me I tender my S incere and hearty thanks T enty years ago I read Domb an dey and Son the philosophy inculcated by that wooden legged and worthy s alt the guiding principle which when found make a note made su ch a firm impression me that I have always S ince a cted upon it E xperience i s knowledge knowledge derived from practice trials and a continuity observation And if this sp ecies knowledge is always power it at least practical and as such will I trust prove universa y useful

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Camel is of the oldest mammals living i s essentially domesticated animal and the earliest ever domesticated It has never least to my knowledge but I found inen to correction been am op a wild state nor have any trac e s ever be en discovered its having been at any period the world s history says that wild camels frequent the wastes Lake Lob in Central Asia and I have re ad els ewhere that herds wild ones the B actrian species have been reported to exist in Turkestan as als o in the desert tracts Shamo the Chines e fronti er but I these statements verier seen have nev confirmed Nubia and the Soudan large herds are allo ed to run wild by their owners and this i s what also occurs in Central Asia I S hould imagine there b eing a vast di erence b etween wild camels and camels that are allowed to run wild U p to the present naturalists have failed in their endeavours to uneart any reli able evidenc e the existence in the toric ages i ts wild ancestor though the other

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