How to revive an exhausted camel?

Wilfred Thesiger together with a group of Bedu companions crossed the Empty Quarter in Saudi Arabia a second time in the late forties of the 20^th century. He reports of sand dunes that were about 500 feet high. Their heavily loaded camels had to go up and down the slopes. He writes [1]:

We stopped after nine hours when the camels could go no farther, again cooking a quick meal before sunset, and eating in the dark after Sadr, who had been watching our tracks, had joined us. For the first time on this journey there was a heavy dew. We slept fitfully, jerking to wakefulness whenever a camel stirred. It was fine and clear when we started again at sunrise. Two hours later one of the baggage camels lay down and refused to move, until...

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... the camel was revived. How?

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

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