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these animals stabled and regularly fed with hay at the 

 Grand Duke's cascine near Pisa. 



Major Wayne having joined the Supply, she pro- 

 ceeded to Tunis, where three camels were taken on 

 board, with a view to test the arrangements which had 

 been made by Lieut. Porter for their conveyance, and 

 to experiment upon their management at sea, and the 

 vessel proceeded to Constantinople, touching at Malta, 

 Smyrna, and Salonica. The Supply arrived at Con- 

 stantinople after a voyage of nearly ninety days from 

 Tunis, and the camels did not appear to have suffered 

 from either the long confinement on shipboard, or the 

 rolling of the vessel in the heavy weather to which she 

 was exposed. They consumed from eight to twelve 

 pounds of hay and six quarts of oats per day each, 

 and were watered once in three days, taking upon an 

 average from two and a half to three buckets of water 

 at a draught. 



From Constantinople, Major Wayne .and Lieut. 

 Porter proceeded to Balaclava, where they saw both 

 the Bactrian and the Arabian species. The incon- 

 venience of accommodating a pack-saddle to the back 

 of the two-humped camel was considered by the British 

 officers a serious objection to the employment of that 

 species for burden. It is not so tall as the Arabian, 

 and slower of pace, but stronger. Col. McMurdo of 

 the British Army, who had had great experience in the 

 use of the Arabian camel in India, had a very high 

 opinion of its value in the military service. Their 

 burden, when employed by the British Army, he stated 

 to average, under favorable circumstances, six hundred 



