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they allow it to coagulate, and consume only the serum, otherwise 

 it increases thirst. The flesh is eaten fresh, salted, or dried in tho 

 sun. The latter is termed Kheleaa. Only camels slaughtered with 

 due form are supposed to be eaten but this regulation is evaded, 

 and often where an animal gets down from injury or disease the 

 ears are cut olT as a sort of ceremony sufhcient to warrant his 

 being eaten in the event of his dying. The horses of tlie Touregs 

 are reputed to be madly fond of camel flesh. The Mongols cut 

 up the hump and use it in tea in lieu of milk, or else consume it 

 as butter. Mangey and galled camels are frequently sold to the 

 Chinese for sale in Pekin as butcher's meat. 



Note 2. — Different kinds of Camels, their peculiarities and 

 DESIGNATIONS : SOURCES AND DISTRIBUTION. — The Bactrian camel 

 is less hardy but stronger than the dromedary and will travel 

 freely over rocks and ice. One-humped camels are used liy 

 the Kerghiz of Oust Ourt, they are large and strong but can't 

 stand cold, so migrate into Khiva during the w^inter and there have 

 bred a red-haired variety which is remarkable as being able to 

 stand the unhealthiness of the Delta of Amou Daria which depends 

 on stagnant of water. Although the Kathiawar people some- 

 times graze their camels in Mangrove swamps, it must be remem- 

 bered that the Tartars are very afraid of moist localities as causing 

 cough and other diseases. The hybrid is said to be fertile butj 

 its progeny still more unmanageable than the male camel itself. 



In Arabic Baa'reer is a male camel, Nok a female ; a running 

 camel is Hejeen or Dolool ; a two-humped animal, Bakhti or Baibi- 

 ron (Palgrave) . The running camel of Morocco and the Algerian 

 Sahara is termed Mehari; the pilgrimage camel of Egypt is 

 Agim ; the indigenous camel or mule camel of Anatolia is a Maia. 



Carbuccia considers the gelding the strongest camel. The 

 process of urination is said to sometimes last 20 minutes. 



Professor Palmer is responsible for much confusion concerning 

 the term Dromedary. It properly means a running camel or 

 sowari, but has now come to mean all cnc-humped camels as 

 contrasted with those having two humps. 



In Jerruch district in Scinde camels are scarce nt the sea coast 

 but in the upper part of Delta droves of 40 — 50 are frequently- seen. 



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