the roador will concludo that fJicrc is t<copc for the exercise of jndg- 

 ment in selection of the best breed of Camels in accordance with tJto 

 'probable field of militarij operations — and that many of tho failiivea 

 of camels as Auimals of Transport depend on a want of care in 

 choice of the best variety. Tho mortality in Afghanistan was 

 notoriously among the large desert camels such as wei'e brouo-ht 

 up from Scind and the Punjab, they Avcre overcome by cold and 

 mountain work which the Paharees were exposed to with impu- 

 nity ; again in the Crimea the local two humped variety worked 

 and thrived while the exotic Arabian Camel died^ whereas had 

 the field of operations been Egypt or the Sahara the Crimean 

 Camels would have died and the African Dromedaries done good 

 work ! Tho valuable rule, to use the trade animals of the country, 

 was not entirely adhered to either in Afghanistan or the Crimea. 

 The French have learned the same lesson when trying to use the 

 hill camel of the Tell in the plains of Algeria, and the Russians 

 found the Kirghiz Camel unsuited for the Turcoman desert 

 country. Further, the Gamel is an animal which Europeans do not 

 understand ; a state of affairs most uncreditable but undeniable. 

 I. V. S. Oliphant and Lieutenant Martin, R,. E., in their notes 

 on the Kuram Valley Operations, have forcibly brought this fact 

 under our notice ; V. S. C. Steel in Southern Afghanistan and 

 M. Vallon in Algeria noted the same fact. Also, the Camel as an 

 Animal of Transport is seldom properly cared for, because he is 

 disliked on account of his want of sociability, his ugliness, his 

 strange habits, and his unpleasant odour. He is despised as fit 

 only to be managed by natives. He is not understood either in 

 health or disease, for which we have no excuse, as the opportu- 

 nities of observation are ample, wo have some literature on 

 the subject available for our information, and our knowledge 

 of the management of other ruminants in health and disease is 

 so advanced as to warrant us in applying it to the Camel rather 

 than trust him to the tender and uncontrolled mercies of the 

 Sorwan and Native Camel Doctor. We cannot subscribe to an 

 opinion which has been recently published "that the safest 

 course for a Veterinary Surgeon with a sick camel is either to 

 leave him alone or to allow the natives to treat him in their own 

 way which is often effectual, although apparently brutal,^' with- 

 out its qualification that these courses ai'o to be resorted to only 



