222 NEIGHBORS WITH OLA WS AND HOOFS. 



journey's end ! ' They were very susceptible to cold, and 

 a temperature of fifty degrees, which we frequently had 

 in the morning, made them tremble like aspen-leaves, and 

 they were sometimes so benumbed that they could scarce- 

 ly load the camels. They were proud of their enormous 

 heads of hair, which they wore parted on both temples, 

 the middle portion being drawn into an upright mass six 

 inches in height, while the side divisions hung over the 

 ears in a multitude of little twists. 



15. " These love-locks they anointed every morning 

 with suet, and they looked as if they had slept in a hard 

 frost until the heat had melted the fat. I thought to nat- 

 ter one of them as he performed the operation by exclaim- 

 ing, ' Beautiful ! ' but he coolly answered : ' You speak the 

 truth ; it is very beautiful.' The Arabs wore long swords 

 carried in a leathern scabbard over the left shoulder, and 

 sometimes favored us with a war-dance, which consisted 

 merely in springing into the air with a brandished sword 

 and turning around once before coming down. They 

 were all very devout, retiring a short distance from the 

 road to say their prayers at the usual hours, and perform- 

 ing the prescribed ablutions with sand instead of water." 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 

 SOME COUSINS OF THE CAMEL 



1. THE llama is an inhabitant of the mountainous 

 regions of Peru and Chili. About the height of a small 

 horse, and possessing some of the characteristics of the 

 sheep, it really belongs, by its structure and use, to the 

 family of the camel. From a remote date it has been to 



