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ject. After taking cold black rings appear on their tongues. Upon 

 these rings blue vitriol should be sprinkled. In the summer time the 

 camel sheds his hair. He should then be smeared with tar, to keep 

 oif the flies, and sent to pasture in the mountains for a few weeks. 



Answer to question 10. The price of a BouhOun may be put 

 down at |120 ; of the cross breed Khadin and Mayas $80 each ; of 

 Arabian camels, tc? e.s^ " Loks" and "Arvanas," at $40 ; of females 

 with their calves running by their side, at $50 to $G0. These I suppose 

 to be the minimum prices. Arabian camels would be cheaper in Syria. 



Question 11 answered in eiFect in No. 2. 



Question 12 and 13. No dromedaries, no fighting camels, found 

 here. 



Question 14 and 15. Camels in great numbers, in the ordinary 

 course of trade, pass this place to Sansoum on the Black Sea. They 

 might be found there (extraordinaries excepted) at any time between 

 October and April. 1 have passed, seemingly, interminable strings 

 of them on the road to Sansoum (laden with wheat and barley) in 

 February. Bouhouns would not be found there, not being used for 

 burden. For the same reason few Loks would be found there. These 

 would need to be obtained from Yoggat or other Turcoman place, or, 

 better still, from their native lands ; the one is the Crimea, the other 

 is Syria. 



Should anything of im])ortance in addition to the above, or con- 

 nexion of it, come to my knowledge I will write you again. Mean- 

 while, I remain, as ever, most truly yours, 



EDWIN E. BLISS. 



Kev. H. G. 0. DwiGHT, D. D., 



Constantinople. 



Mosul, November 17, 1855. 



Dear Sir : Your camel circular came at a most unpropitious time : 

 Mr. March still an invalid, and I in the midst of lettering eight grave 

 stones, and the stonecutters pressing me for " copy." If I keep the 

 circular (which I have not time to copy) over to the next mail, and 

 each of the other stations do the same, it will be three and half or four 

 months before the replies get in. So I have done the best I could : 

 called in two principal cameliers of my acquaintance and put to them 

 the questions in their order. The replies, taken down from their 

 mouths, you have here just as I scratched them oif, for really I am una- 

 ble to copy or digest them from want of time. I hope they will be found 

 legible and intelligible, but I fear somewhat. The measurement I 

 took myself. As to weighing, a camel was never weighed in these 

 parts. Mr. March is now nearly well. 

 Truly yours, 



W. F. WILLIAMS. 



Rev. H. a. 0. Davight, D. D., 



Constantinople. 



P. S. I enclose for examination a specimen of a kind of herb whic 



