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IMPROVEMENT OF TROPIOAL AND SUBTROPIOAL RANGBLANDS
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FIGURE 3-4
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Typical p..toral nomad'i camp on a Iud dune during the wet
among the Kel Ayr. Baggage is piled on the north and south sides
allowing the east and west sides to be opened when lIWllight, and
sometimes wind, is not coming from these directions (at noon, tents
are opened on both sides to give maximum shade and ventilation).
The distance between tents varies according to the terrain. On
small dune tope, the major family tents of nobles, for example, may
be as close as 10 m to each other, with the hou.hold slave tents
clustered within 2 m (figure 3-4), whereas on open plains they may
be separated by 40 m, (figure 8-5) obliging the women to ride donkeys
when visiting friends on the opposite side of the camp.
Camps as a whole are vaguely crescen~ or U-shaped. At night
when the animals return to the camp for milking, the camelB are