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has paused and fires of anger are now
playing a better stemming.
Sometimes they wait several days to rest
their animals and let them feed - Sometimes
the tents have gone and the camels have
vanished next morning on the first week of day.
The camels now are nearly naked or
crowded with a few wisps of hair like
the beard of a Chinese patriarch. Their
blue-white skin is their only covering
until the new fur of early summer
transforms them from hideous
objects into splendid beasts, with full
beard-fringes and up-standing humps.
But worst of all is when a camel
is in full process of losing his winter
hair. It comes down in fat patches
leaving great tufted hair like a patch-
work quilt with ragged fringe from
every angle of his great uncomely body.
We had a long hunt today but a very
successful one. After 1½ hrs. riding out we
found three antelopes and after a
splendid run I got a big drop. A short
while later we got a second and finally a
third. This one had a broken hind leg
a very pretty hat a hard run to bring
down.
Then we found a young antelope
man only a few days ago, and finally