Thousands of years ago life was hard as people had to do all the work by themselves. A large number of people would travel from one place to another in search of food and shelter. While travelling one day, a man arrived at the edge of a desert. He was walking in the sands, when he came across a strange creature – it had extremely long, thin legs, a giant hump and a long neck. The following day, he met the creature again. The creature was putting its long neck into the lake and drinking water continuously. 2. In the following weeks, the man saw more such creatures, again and again. It seemed they were all over the desert, aimlessly walking about for miles. The man began to observe the creatures very closely. He saw that they were remarkably meek and gentle. They could walk around the desert without being exhausted. The man thought he would tame the creature and make it ferry all his stuff. 3. So one day, while one of the creatures was dozing, the man went up to it and put a bridle in its mouth. Then he rode around on it after placing an enormous amount of load on its back. With this the taming of the animal was complete, and ever since then, the camel lived up to its title “Ship of the Desert”.
Two qualities of the camel that led to the taming of the camel are: *