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pounds, and their ordinary day's journey under this 

 burden, " without pushing," from twenty-five to thirty 

 miles. Gen. Napier organized in India a corps of five 

 hundred camels, each carrying two men riding back to 

 back, the forward rider being the groom and driver, the 

 other a soldier. In action, the camels were formed into 

 one or more squares, made to kneel, and hoppled. The 

 soldiers were armed with rifles and sabres, and fought 

 on foot. The corps would march seventy miles in 

 twelve hours, and in the war in Sinde rendered effi- 

 cient service. Gen. Simpson, of the British Army, in- 

 formed Major Wayne that, when serving in India, he 

 had five or six camels for his personal use, and pre- 

 ferred them to the best English horses, as being capa- 

 ble of longer marches. The only objection to their 

 use was the difficulty of accustoming horses to them. 



From Constantinople, the Supply proceeded to Alex- 

 andria, where some valuable animals were procured, 

 one male from Sennaar, two from Siout, and one from 

 the vicinity of Mount Sinai, a female from Muscat, and 

 four from Siout, making nine in all, some of them for 

 burden and some for the saddle. From Alexandria, 

 Lieut. Porter writes, that one of the Tunisian camels, 

 (two having been left at Constantinople,) had been on 

 board one hundred and twenty days, and had improved 

 in condition, upon an allowance of eight pounds of hay 

 only per day. 



They now sailed for Smyrna, and there purchased 

 two male Bactrians, one cross between the male Bac- 

 trian and the female Arabian, four male, and fifteen 

 female Arabians, one of which soon after produced a 



