Camels arc kept in Southern Asia Minor to bo crossed with 

 Arabian Dromedaries, tlie jn-oduct conatitnting tlie most useful 

 form for this part of the world (Anderson) and cross-bred animals 

 are said to bo preferred by the Arabs as having much vigour of 

 constitution. It is said that if the dam be a dromedary and 

 the sire a camel the progeny works well in a cold climate, but if 

 the dam be a camel the offspring is ill-tempered and intractable. 

 This conclusion has not been proved.* 



4. The Scindl Camel is a large animal with well developed, 

 in fact enormous, forehand, noble looking, with short fine coat, but 

 extremely susceptible to climatic changes, being very much affec- 

 ted by cold and not hardy. His long limbs suit for journeys 

 over sandy plains and he can do much work in a dry land under 

 a hot sun but the mortality of animals of this variety in Afghan- 

 istan, especially with the Candahar Force, was enormous, few of 

 any other kind were used in South Afghanistan (0. Steel). 



5. Funjahi Camels are very similar to those found in Scinde. 

 The best are procurable AVest of Jhelum and the kind known as 

 Bajri found near Hissar is especially good. Camels fit for tran- 

 sport used to be procurable in serviceable numbers on the North 

 Western Frontier but few can be obtained there now. In the 

 Punjab desert camels known as " Bar-ke-unt" are found but they 

 are of inferior quality (Yaldwin). "The Camels of the Punjab 

 are much more surefooted than those of the lower parts of the 

 Bengal Presidency and, if moderately loaded, will travel in very 

 rainy weather over slippery clay soil quite as well as horses" 

 (Meyrick) • The information given recently about camels in the 

 Punjab District by V. S. Nunn is of great value. He shows that 

 Shahpur is the great camel breeding ground of the Punjab, both 

 in the Bar and Thall are found large fine animals with light hair, 

 and the breeding of which is denoted by a depression between the 

 nasal and frontal bones. These are available in large numbers, 

 they carry salt from the mines and the males are let out by their 

 owners in strings to merchants but the females, are kept at work 

 near home with a view to their utilization for breeding. The 

 ThuU Camels are used for pack, any required for riding purposes 

 are imported from Jesselmeer and Bikaneer ; Stud Animals, also 



*The two humped species is almost the only ouc seen in Mongolia 

 (Prjevalski). 



