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difficulty lias been experienced in managing and con- 

 trolling them. 



Major AVayne found at Paris none of the French of- 

 ficers who had used the camel in Algeria, but procured 

 a pamphlet by Gen. Daumas on the acclimatization of 

 the camel in France. The pamphlet conveys little 

 new information. It gives a list of the Arabic names 

 of the plants on which the camel feeds, but many of 

 these have not been identified by their European or 

 scientific names. The list embraces one hundred and 

 twenty species, certainly a pretty large proportion of 

 the wild plants of Algeria. Besides vegetables com- 

 monly known as the food of the camel, I observe species 

 of hyoscyamus and of terebinth, but I do not find the 

 coloquintida, by either its officinal or its Arabic name, 

 (hamdal,) nor any of the cactacese. Gen. Daumas 

 describes a much more careful treatment of both dam 

 and foal than is usual among the Bedouins, and ob- 

 serves that fodder on which blood has been spilt is 

 believed to be poisonous to the cameL 



Lieut. Porter visited Pisa, and saw the herd upon 

 the Grand-ducal farm. He thinks they have not de- 

 generated since their importation from Egypt, but on 

 the contrary improved, and says that though neglected, 

 overworked, never fed, but left to sustain themselves 

 by browsing on the pine barrens, and not housed in 

 winter, they are able to carry burdens of twelve hun- 

 dred English pounds. With respect to their load, 

 Lieut. Porter's information is much the same as was 

 given me by the keej^ers, but I must observe that 

 in December, 1849, I saw one hundred and forty of 



