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Show -f r jy O Egypt's famous Camel Cam-el Corps, the hard riding Haganah, are called the "Mounties" of North Africa. Af-rica. The group (above) moves on the double. They are the greatest camel riders in the world and their mounts the fastest things in the desert. Every animal must be healthy and strong and every member of the Haganah is responsible for his mount. At left the commander inspects a camel. I , - 7 ' -j . ' i ,j. '" I id O Inspection (above) of a company of the Haganah is strict. The Corps, numbering number-ing more than 1,000 men and 2,000 white camels from the Egyptian Sudan, patrols Egypt's 3,000 mile border line. Two of E g y p r' s "Mounties" are pictured at left and right. The vertical cuts on their faces were carved there by their mothers moth-ers when they were five j years old. They are very I proud of them, because they j tell the men are from the ' lower Sudan. : (v':y "' t v ' - I 1 lis 0 In the almost impassable impass-able wastes of the Sort So-rt hara, where soft sands " make automobiles use-tt use-tt less, the camel is still re king of transportation. 1 Mohammed, greatest n tracker of the Haganah, l (right) gives new recruits ,f o demonstration in track-j track-j ing down a smuggler. One of the Corps' main jobs is tracking down thieves. i ' v ,ff Us J ' il ' '. ' , ::.v. " ; . ' i y - ' - 0 With their commander, command-er, (left) the recruits follow fol-low the trail and trot up a hill near the pyramids. These men are trained to cross the toughest desert wastes with a four gallon supply of water that must last a minimum of five days. It often lasts ten. An average daily patrol covers 65 miles of Sahara sands. G With tTje training ercise finished, this is fl,e way to escort a esert suspect,, says the Hganah. A man on ech side and one to fol-low; fol-low; This is the end of the Epical day for recruits, 0 lesson gained from ex-"erience. ex-"erience. The most "mazing faculty of the is their ability to ollw any given camel ,rocl. picking it out 0,,ong hundreds of others. ,,. ,w imj.iw.nr 'HH'JP"" - - 1f 4S; iJ |