It stuck filthily in the Camel’s Stomach…that a Creature of his Size should be left naked and Defenceless.
-from Aesop’s Fables, trans. Roger L’Estrange (1616-1704)
A camel’s stomach is indeed filthy, by the foul odor of what comes out either end. In the fable, Camel asked Zeus for a set of horns to rival Bull’s, and Zeus for this impudent request clipped his ears. Thus whatever our camels could not hear, our drovers would smell.