The character of the camel has formed the subject of writers of various levels of experience…He is essentially a traveller, rest for him is an unnatural condition. As long as he is moving, whether fairly loaded or not, he will go on unmurmuring without food, rest, or water until the day he dies.
-F.S. Ensor, Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor, 1881
I once heard a camel murmuring, from distress, in the days before he died. On his last day he screamed from deep in his throat when we cut it from ear to ear, for he was badly lame and there was no place to humanely abandon him, so we slaughtered and ate him. This incident occured on our journey through Kordofan and Nubia to Egypt in 1984.