How to revive an exhausted camel?

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Wilfred Thesiger continues his report [1]:
..., at Amair's suggestion, we poured a little water down her nostrils, which revived her. We reached the Aradh at one o'clock and camped two hours later in a shallow watercourse on the limestone plateau. We were across the Sands.

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[1] Wilfred Thesiger: Arabian Sands (1959). Reprinted in Penguin Travel Library, 1991;
page 236.

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