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male foal. With this number, thirty-three in all, they 

 sailed for the United States, and after putting into 

 Kingston for water, they arrived on the coast of 

 Texas early in May, with the loss, it is said, of but a 

 single animal. Three Arabs and two Turks have ac- 

 companied them to the United States as grooms and 

 drivers, and the entire cost of purchase and all con- 

 tingent expenses has not exceeded eight thousand 

 dollars. 



This remarkable success in transporting so large 

 animals to so great a distance on shipboard, furnishes 

 a gratifying proof of the very judicious nature of the 

 arrangements made by the officers for the performance 

 of this difficult duty, and at the same time shows a 

 power of endurance in the animal quite unexpected, 

 thus fully justifying Major Wayne's opinion, that " the 

 camel bears transportation by sea better than the horse, 

 the mule, or the ox." 



The officers have acted wisely in selecting varieties 

 best adapted for general service. To have expended 

 the funds at their command in obtaining animals of the 

 swiftest breeds would have hazarded the success of the 

 whole enterprise, while there can be little doubt, that 

 in procuring camels from climates nearly corresponding 

 with those in which they are to be naturalized, they 

 have greatly increased the chances of a favorable result. 

 With the Arabian and the Bactrian, we have the 

 means of trying an expervmentum crucis, on the adapta- 

 tion of the hardier and more serviceable kinds to our 

 conditions and wants, and with the experience which 

 will be' acquired from these, it will be comparatively an 



