There is bother enough with the baggage, as it is.

Of course, it is different in your case.

There are only two or three white officers with each battalion, and it would not strike your black troops as a hardship that you should have different food from themselves.

They are living as well as, or better than, they ever did in their lives.
Three camels make no material addition to your baggage train, while, as there are thirty or forty of us, it would make a serious item in ours, and the General's keen eyes would spot them at once." "Our camels are no burden to the army," Gregory said.

"They only have a few pounds of grain a day, and get their living principally on what they can pick up.