Drilling the Camelry.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 50, 31 January 1885, Page 4

Drilling the Camelry.

f! y fhe pf , the ' "IC^mqlry '"! ,a$ tjThe camel cprpsp m .tlic Nile. )ex-_ pedjtiop i.^ t?rifled fey, the! men, is : yery amusing m somp pi its features. .At. fivgt the men lamented much at • having to exchange. their qlever little ;Avab horses: for ungainly camels, bnt they soon became reconciled io ■the change: They, soon' discovered that even for a short distance a*good 'trotting 1 ciriviel ! eari get over' the . eroiib^'ntVa'Mcef equal ! td 'the' J3iTiflkrt!

canter of «an-- ordinary hovse'; and /for long* marches, with scant • supply of water and inferior' fowl* the camel is .superior beyond comparison. The camels drill well when m motion, lint when ordered to dismount the jfjoi'CQ becomes suprcmqly .vidiqulous. First officers and men have :ill to in>mi.t;ite vigorously the gurgle by which their Arab mastsrs were wont •■ to i request their camels tfo lie- 1 down— ail uncouth sound wh.cli'thc AngloI Saxon throat accomplishes wi th« difficulty. : Then there is ajjpgging andkicking of heels, ancj. roaring ;of camels, with English accompahimeut.; this lasts for a, minute or so; until onp>by one; all haye subsided on the ground, .when the men get ...oif^ and discipline, silence, and mil}-, tary decpr,um ;s restored. It is the, same wh ; en, mpuntiug,- »anjji, indeed, oue. can hgar a mile away the moused infantiy, ( e 1 xe 1 G lut.e!either.;of1 ut.e! either.; of these impyemfi^ts^ao gi'^at^is thje din, and !SP,:lqtt,d ar^<6he qomplaints to which men and cam sis. give jvent. ,