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promising foals, or the high-blooded breeds, that 

 these extraordinary pains are bestowed. 



The young camel is able to stand and walk 

 at his birth. If he is dropped upon a march, an 

 event by no means uncommon, he is generally 

 carried for a day in the arms of a slave on foot, 

 or on the back of the dam, after which he is left 

 to follow her as he can, and he usually manages 

 to keep up with the caravan. " A young lady 

 of my party," says a writer often quoted, " rode 

 several days with a new-born foal tied to the 

 tail of her dromedary, and the brisky juvenile 

 appeared to have little difficulty in keeping pace 

 with his mamma, although occasionally, in the 

 latter part of the day's journey, his tow-line, 

 which in the morning had a good deal of slack, 

 would get hauled rather taut." 



The Bedouin regards the foaling of a camel 

 with much the same feelings as Sterne's Obadiah 

 greeted the advent of his calf. " Lo ! another 

 child is born to us," cries he, upon the arrival of 

 the youthful stranger, and he receives him with 

 almost as much interest and affection as he be- 

 stows on the new-born heir of his tent, and of 

 the flocks, which constitute the only wealth of 

 the nomade tribes. The camel is almost uni- 

 formly treated with much gentleness by the wan- 

 dering Arabs, though the Egyptians and other 

 nations who are less dependent upon them, as 



