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the Jirst treating generally of the camel and his animal 

 life, the second of the members, constituents, and pro- 

 ducts of his body, his properties and qualities, and the 

 third of his conditions, uses, and treatment. These sec- 

 tions are subdivided into sixteen chapters. T\\q fourth 

 section, in four chapters, gives the few passages of the 

 Koran in which mention is made of the camel ; the tra- 

 ditional expressions of Mohammed referring to the ani- 

 mal ; one hundred and forty-seven proverbs and pro- 

 verbial phrases ; and numerous passages translated from 

 twenty Arabic poets, descriptive or illustrative of the 

 habits, uses, and value of the camel. 



As might be expected, many of these chapters add 

 nothing to the existing stock of information on the sub- 

 ject, though frequently interesting from the glimpses 

 they afford of oriental life and oriental character. 



I confine my excerpts to passages wdiich supply 

 omissions in the foregoing pages. 



Chap. I. Names of the camel. The general name 

 of the animal is not, as is mistakenly supposed, the 

 Arabic word dscheml, or dscherael, (jeml, in English 

 orthography,) but Ibl Dscheml is only used of the 

 male, naket, (written naga by most travellers) of the 

 female, when there is occasion to specify the sex. All 

 the other numerous names of the camel indicate age, 

 sex, or properties, and Ibl is the only word which 

 expresses the species in the abstract, without reference 

 to accidents. 



Chap. II. A small delicate and pointed ear is a sign 

 of "blood," and the ear of high-bred animals is often 

 cut, so that a strip of the lobe hangs pendent. In a 



