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previous letters, I will again repeat, that I hope to arrive at Inclianola 

 about the last of April or first of May, and request that I may find 

 ever preparation made for lightering the animals immediately upon 

 my arrival off the bar, and a 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 shipboard. 



Should we be so fortunate as to run through the Mediterranean in 

 fifteen or twenty days, we may be off Indianola by the 15th April, as 

 the " Supply" is a fast ship, and as we shall have, after leaving the 

 Canaries, I am told, the advantage of trade winds. The only delay 

 in the voyage anticipated by the officers of the vessel is in the passage 

 hence to and through the Straits of Gibraltar. The run across the 

 Atlantic they seem to regard as a certainty of thirty-five or forty days. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



HENRY C. WAYNE, 

 Major United States Arimj. 



Hon. Jeff'n Davis, 



Secretary of War, Washington. 



United States Storeship ''Supply," 



At sea, April 10, 1856. 



Sir : I have the honor to transmit herewith six papers upon the 

 camel, (one a translation accompanying the original French,) as 

 follows : 



No. 1. " Notes sur les dromadaries qui se trouvent en Egypte, par 

 Linant de Bellefonds, Bey^ Ingeneur en chef des Fonts et chaussees au 

 Viceroi/' &c. 



No. 2. "Translation of No. 1." 



No. 3. " Letter of Edwin DeLeon, esq., United States consul gen- 

 eral for Egypt, enclosing one to him from Mr. Ayrtoun, agent for the 

 estates of II hami Pacha, son of the late viceroy, in relation to the 

 dromedaries and burden camels of Egypt." 



No. 4. '^Letters from the Rev. H. G. 0. Dwight, D. D., the Rev. 

 Edwin E. Bliss, and the Rev. W. F. Williams, American mission- 

 aries, in relation to the camels in Asia Minor and other portions of 

 Turkey in Asia." 



No. 5. "Notes upon the camel in Algiers, translated from the 

 official reports of General L. L. Carbuccia, by Albert Ray, late wagon 

 and forage master United States army." 



No. 6. "Of the anatomy of the dromedary, translated from the 

 official reports of General L. L, Carbuccia, by Dr. S. Allen Engles, 

 United States navy." 



The thanks of the expedition are due to all of the above named 

 gentlemen who have contributed to the advancement of its object ; but 

 especially to the Rev. H. G. 0. Dwight, D. D., for the hearty zeal 

 and energy with which he entered into the views of his government, 

 and to the Rev. Edwin Bliss and Rev. W. F. Williams, for the 

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