194 THE CAMEL. 



other have been found an inconvenience in Tus- 

 cany ; and even in Tartary, where the Bactrian 

 has been long in use, it appears from Father 

 Hue. that horses regard them with fear or dis- 

 like ; but the objection is of no great force as 

 appHed to the sparsely populated regions of the 

 far West, and as the multiplication of the ani- 

 mal would be gradual and slow, it is not likely 

 that any great or general evil would flow from 

 this source. 



The most serious inconvenience which would 

 attend the use of the camel in marching through 

 a country inhabited by hostile Indians, is the 

 necessity of allowing him to wander in search 

 of food ; but as he habitually returns to camp 

 before sunset, of his own accord, and never feeds, 

 and very seldom stirs during the night, he would 

 require to be watched only for a couple of hours 

 during the whole twenty-four. 



The testimony is so strong in favor of the 

 Bactrian for northern latitudes, and of the cross 

 between the two species for the general purposes 

 of a burden animal, that it is highly important 

 to import a sufficient number of the former spe- 

 cies to test the qualities of both the pure breed 

 and the hybrid, with reference to our own special 

 wants. Now that peace is restored, the Bactrian 

 might readily be obtained from the Russo-Euro- 

 pean provinces on the Black Sea, but as the 

 camels of those provinces are trained only for 



