136 PUECHASE OF CAMELS FOE MILITAEY PUEPOSES. 



CAMEL JOURNAL— Continued. 



Date. 



1856. 



Hay. Water. 



Feb. 26 

 27 



28 



Mar. 1 



Oats. 



Bags, 



20 



20 

 2i- baijs. 



Peas, 



Meal. 



Medicines 



Lbs. 



40 



70 



1 pint tin- 

 pentine. 



1 quart 

 sweet oil 



I pint Brit 

 ish oil. 



1 quart 

 sweet oil 



1 oz. blue 

 stone. 

 1 quart 



sweet oil 



1 pt. sweet 

 oil. 



1 quart 

 sweet oil 



1 quart 

 sweet oil 



Remarks. 



produced by nature, (and which in the young 

 calf when born is one-fourth of an inch thick,) 

 nature has provided a gristly, pulpy cushion, 

 intervening between it and the bones of the 

 foot, which are thus admirably protected. 

 Employed constructing fresh gear to hinder 

 the animals from sliding from one side of the 

 deck to the other when the ship is rolling 

 heavily. 



Cleaning, &c., as usual. Bactrian, on the port 

 side, cats very little; has not eaten much 

 since he came on board. 



This day No. 10 (i^myrnian) gave birth to a 

 female calf, very strong and lively. As the 

 Turks on board have hitherto had charge of 

 the young ones, and with poor success, this 

 one has been turned over to tne Bedouin, 

 Mahomet. He did not swaddle it as the 

 Turks, but left it free in its movements. The 

 consequence was, that the calf in a few hours 

 was on its legs and trying to sock the mother. 

 The labor in this instance was rather pro- 

 t.ract»d. Tlie mother, also, is " kinder" than 

 the others were. The sand used under the 

 camels' legs and callosities having, during the 

 heavy rolling in the late gale, chaled and fret- 

 tod off the outer covering of tlie callosities, 

 this day ceased to use sand, and substituted 

 hay. 



Calf doing remarkably well, and the mother lets 

 it suck ; the Bedouin careful of it. Oiled the 

 callosities of all the camels, some of them 

 having cracked. Littered well with hay. 



Gourmal still in heat. Rubbed in, on camels 

 with swelled legs, equal parts of sweet oil, 

 British oil, and turpentine. 



This day Ibrim accidentally covered No. — , a 

 Smyrnian camel. Continue to give cil to 

 camels that require it. A Smyrnian male 

 camel in the late gale having chafed his hind 

 leg 08 the hamstring, some of the tendon ap- 

 pears to puff out in the form of a ball with a 

 stem Mkt. Applied bluestone ointment, and 

 bandiged. 



Camel's protuberance on the hind leg increases 

 in size, but no suppuration or iiiflainmation. 

 Continue the same ointment. Tlie young 

 camel doing well. Nothing to note. Cleaned 

 out well. 



This day applied lunar caustic to the camel's 

 leg; no iiitiammation. Nothing to nole. 



Removed all the stale and wet litter from the 

 camel deck, and Uttered afresh. The ball of 

 extraneous matter or muscle dropped off the 

 leg of the camel during the night of this day, 

 leaving a clean wound, devoid of suppuration 

 or inflammation ; to keep out dirt, applied 

 strips of dyacholon plaster. This day removed 

 the light blankets from the camels, but blanket 

 those in the wake of the hatch at night. 

 " Getting hot below." Cleaned this day with 

 lime, to kill the odor of the urine. 



Oiled all the callosities of the camels this day, 

 and had them well cleaned. The evening of 

 this day, finding it too hot for the animals, 

 opened a few of the windows forward and 

 aft, and set two windsails in the main hatch. 

 Nothing to note. 



Cleansed out from behind the animals ; curried 

 and brushed them ; oiled any hard places re- 

 quired to be served so. Ventilation, &,c., 

 receive I all necessary attention. Camels 

 generally appear to be improving in appear- 

 ance. Received orders from Capt. Porter to 

 take charge of the camel deck. 



Cleaned out and curried animals as usual. 

 Rubbed Gourmal with sulphuric ointment on 

 his sore spots. Dosed Said, Gourmal, and 

 No. 10 Smyrna mare witli oil. 



