He also has a passage which might well offend the delicate susceptabilities of the less tolerant believers in Islam, although to anyone with a nodding acquaintance with the tents of that faith, the incident is so far-fetched as to neutralise "The willing suspension of disbelief" I have therefore decided to eliminate it from this version of the story.

It is not very amusing and is no great loss.
Although Daudet's humour is in the main kindly, he does not spare the French colonial administration of the time.

His treatment of the subject is acidly satirical.

It may be said that Daudet seems to know little about firearms, less about lions and nothing about camels, but he is not striving for verisimilitude.

After all, the adventures of James Bond do not mirror the reality of international espionage, nor do the exploits of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves truely reflect life in the upper echelons of British society.
This is not a schoolroom exercise in translation.