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 'Camel — continued — 



tages of for military purposes, 120 ; anatomical differences between the Arabian 

 and Bactrian, 103 ; appropriation by Congress to introduce, 121 ; burden of. 111; 

 best place to procure them for the United States, 122 ; bad swimmer, 106 ; civilized 

 life prejudicial to, 106 ; caravans cross glaciers, 117 ; color of, 114 ; domesticated 

 in Tuscany, 108; detects water at great distance, 109 ; difficulties in introduction 

 of, 121 : endures privation from food, 107 ; effects of introduction of, among the In- 

 dians, 120 ; foot of, 105 ; fords rivers, 106 ; free from disease, 120 ; favorite food of, 

 107; feeding at temperature of 25° below zero, 118; fleece of some species 

 equal to the wool of Cashmere goat, 114 ; finest and fleetest Arabian will not 

 bear winter climate of Algiers, 118 ; growls of the, 115 ; hair shawls, 114 ; 

 beiglit of, 113 ; harness of, 112 ; instances of fleetness, 110 ; in some parts of 

 the East employed as a beast of draught. 111 ; longevity of, greatest in the cold 

 and damp Russian provinces, 117 ; milk of, 114 ; milked without halting, 120 ; 

 method of securing at night, 121 ; most valuable in winter in the Crimea, 117 ; 

 moisture of our climate unfavorable to, 117 ; most important peculiarity of, 106 ; 

 not fed ordinarily, 107 ; nostrils of, slit by Bedouins, 104 ; nomade in his habits, 

 101 ; never feeds at night, 115 ; numbers of, 118 ; not as patient as represented, 

 115 ; practicability and advantages of introdu^^ing into America, 110; perform- 

 ance of, in Algeria, &c., 105 ; price of, 120 ; preferred to horses by the Cal- 

 mucks, 117 ; period of gestation of, 120 ; paroxysms of, calmed, 115 ; power of, 

 to abstain from water, 109 ; quantity of food required by, 108 ; rate of travel 

 of, 110 ; security of seat on, 120 ; skeleton of, not found in the catacombs, 102 ; 

 special properties of different varieties, 117 ; surpasses all domestic quadrupeds 

 in speed and endurance, 110 ; species of, 101 ; used to carry sacred veil to Mecca, 

 115 ; transportation of an army by, 119 ; travels with security over snow and 

 mud, 106 ; training of, 113 ; used in war, 118 ; utility of, 114 ; used by Napo- 

 leon, 118 ; used in military service, 113 ; weight of, 113. 



Camelus bactrianus 101 



Camelus dromas 102 



Camelus dromedarius 101 



*' Camel's temper," proverbial expression 115 



Camels, food prepared and cooked on the backs of 120 



Camels in General Aghouat's Expedition did not drink from February to May 109 



Camels of tlie Sultan of Morocco 115 



Cameron, Gilbert 69, 74, 77 



Campbell, Albert H 83 



Campbell, General Robert B 37 



Campbell, Hugh 83, 84 



Campbell, Lord, Observations of 161 



Camp Far West, Rain at 245, 247 



Camp Shawnee Reservation 83 



Cai7ibridge 35 



Cambridge Observatory 145 



Camp Yuma 37, 84 



Canada 35, 47 



Canada, embass}' from Congress to 174 



Canada, efforts to obtain co-operation of, with thirteen colonies 173 



Canada, expedition under Montgomery to 174 



Canada, transfer of, from French to British dominion 174 



Canada, Thunder-storm in 201 



