200 PURCHASE OF CAMELS FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. 



Camp Verde, Texas, January 30, 1857. 

 Dear Major: ******* 

 The camels are doing very well. Another of the females has had a 

 "still-born" young one. Alexander (the Armenian interpreter, H. 

 C. W.) thinks the mother must have been hurt or frightened to pro- 

 duce this. Alexander says that nearly all the female camels are 



enceinte. I think they are doing very well. 



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Very truly, yours, 



J. N. PALMER, 

 U. S. Army, Captain 2d Cavalry. 

 Major Henry C. Wayne, 



United States Army, Washington City. 



Assistant Quartermaster's Office, 



Indianola, Texas, February 10, 1857. 



Sir : I have to report that 41 (forty-one) camels, in good order, 



were landed this day from the steamer " Suwanee." 



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I am, with respect, your obedient servant, 



W. K. VAN BOKKELEN, 



Captain^ Acting Quartermaster. 

 Hon. Jefferson Davis, 



Secretary of War, Washington. 



