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as tliat of a like number of liorses or mules, and proceeds principally 

 from corporeal exhalations ; the urine passed being but little, and the 

 dung, or argots, as named by Father Hue, being round and hard like 

 that of sheep's, though in size larger, averaging an inch and a half in 

 diameter. For these last reasons, also, camels are much cleaner to 

 transport than horses or mules. 



The ingenious arrangements of Lieutenant Porter for embarking 

 the animals and for securing them in gales, and which have an- 

 swered excellently the purposes for which they were intended, belong 

 particularly to his branch of the expedition, and will no doubt be fully 

 described by him. I shall therefore say nothing in relation to them. 



FOOD OF THE CAMEL. 



Barley, wheat and beans, ground and made into a thick paste or 

 dough with other grains of the east, and cut straw, form the usual nour- 

 ishment of the camel. It takes also very readily and kindly to good 

 hay, timothy and clover, and to oats. I give also the names of certain 

 shrubs and plants, mentioned by General Daumas, in his pamphlet, 

 "upon the acclimation of the camel in France," as constituting its 

 habitual grazing. " Many of them," says the general, "are known, 

 some are riot." As I have no botanical work, or friend at hand, I 

 must trust to future opportunity, or to your assistance to obtain as 

 far as possible their coramon names. 



SHRUBS. 



Arabic name. 



Ed-djefen .. 

 El.guezahh. 



Ez-zit 



El-be] bah.. 

 El-igthan . . 

 El-gbares .. 

 El-giiethof . 



En-nasi 



Es-Salian . . 



Es-sefar 



Er-regni . . . 

 El-koubar. 

 En nagad . 



Botanical name. 



Radi.x vitis 



Seminis cepae 



Oleum olivarum _ 



do 



do ..:. 



do 



Androsoemum 



Cardui species 



Herboe sen oleris species. 

 Herbce spinosae.. 



do 



do 



Anthemis 



Common name. 



Ech-cbabrag Planta rubros fructus babens 



et rerbrum lignum quocum 

 sanguis occisorum compa- 

 ratur. 



Teskir Hyoscyamus - 



El-fil - do 



Ed-djelab do - 



El-ferou do - 



El-djad do 



El-betliom Terebintbus 



Lartb do 



Es-sad Cyperus 



El-alned .do 



Lazal ..do 



El-merakb Cynancbum viminale 



Er-rabi do 



Et-tafeh do 



