48 PURCHASE OP CAMELS FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. 



departure, we shall sail from this place for the Canary Islands within 

 a week, say on the 15th instant, and, after a week's delay at Fuerte 

 Ventura and Teneriflfe, continue on our voyage to Indianola, where I 

 hope to arrive about the last of April or first of May. Let me again 

 request that I may find every preparation made for an immediate 

 lightering of the animals upon our arrival off the bar, and a good, 

 clean stable yard for their reception, in which they can be safely kept 

 and attended to, and recruit from the effects of their voyage and 

 confinement on ship board. 



My accounts and returns for the fourth quarter of 1855 will be 

 mailed from Indianola, as I have had no opportunity of sending them 

 by a vessel bound to the United States, the only certain and economi-. 

 cal manner of transtnitting them, as I have been informed. 



With much respect, sir, I am your obedient servant, 



HENRY C. WAYNE, 



Major United States Army. 



Hon. Jefferson Davis, 



Secretary of War, Washington. 



Smyrna, Asia Minor, February 11, 1856. 

 Sir : Enclosed is a letter to Messrs. Riggs & Co., bankers of Wash- 

 ington, in relation to closing my account with them. In it, you will 

 see that I have requested them to forward their answer to me through 

 you. 



This I have done as I am uncertain where my address may be when 

 they shall be ready to close my account with their house. 



The camels purchased here are now embarked, and with the first 

 fair wind we sail for the United States with thirty-three, as follows : 

 1 Tunis camel of burden, male. 

 1 Sennaar dromedary, male. 



1 Muscat dromedary, female. 



2 Siout dromedaries, males. 



4 Siout dromedaries, females. 



1 Mount Sinai dromedary, male. 



2 Bactrian camels, males. 



1 " Booghdee" or "Tuilu," male, (produce of the Bactrian male 

 and Arabian female.) 



4 Arabian camels of burden, males.* 

 . 15 Arabian camels of burden, females. 



1 Arabian camel 24 days old, male. 

 To prevent mistake or delay from possible miscarriage of any of my 



c- The words "Bactrian" and "Arabian," applied' to the description of the camel 

 embarked, are not used in a natal, but in a specific sense, to describe the kind of animals 

 according to the division I have adopted and uniformly followed. The Bactrian has two 

 "humps ; the Arabian only one. The " Booghdee" takes after the mother and has but one 

 hump. A hybrid, it partakes, it is said, somewhat of the character of the mule, being 

 able to prodiice only an inferior race. 



H. C. W. 



