160 



the abdomen an absence of omental fat, marked vascular 

 engorgement, gastric macous membrane congested ; walls of 3rd 

 and 4th stomachs and of rectum thickened markedly, tliose of 

 other parts of intestine also sligbtlj tliick. Intestinal contents 

 of most offensive odour. Liver capsule light in colour, marble 

 coloration of the liver substance. Gall bladder distended with 

 dark-green tliick bile. Spleen enlai'ged 1^ times, filled with 

 blood, soft, and splenic pulp can be scraped easily ; capsule dark 

 violet. Pancreas enlarged, rose-red ; kidneys with adherent 

 capsules, cortex dark, medulla lighter but whole organ con- 

 gested. Ureters partly thickened. Bladder much distended 

 with light yellow urine, yielding on standing a whitish flakey 

 precipitate. Tendon of diaphragm much congested, as also is 

 pleura and, still more, the pericardium. Muscular portion of the 

 diaphragm pale. Blood, in all heart cavities, liquid, and with 

 clots floating in it. Lungs and bronchial passages congested. 

 General congestions of all the large blood vessels. No changes 

 of central nervous organs detected. (This record reads 

 very like Rinderpest, but the views of the Veterinarian who 

 records it may be correct.) 



Note 33. — Lady Annie Blunt writes : — "The best way to manage 

 camels is to keep them going at a steady pace all the morning, 

 for they do not care to eat during the forenoon, and then, when 

 the sun begins to decline, to let them feed as they go." This 

 reduces their pace to 2^ m. per hour. 2 hours before sunset at 

 least, allow them to stop and turn them loose to get all they can 

 before dark ; if there is a moon they will go on grazing half the 

 night, otherwise they will sit quietly chewing the cud. They 

 require no water during the winter, nor so long as they get grass 

 during the spring ; if fed on beans as in Egypt they must drink 

 at least every 4 days in warm Aveather. 



A camel forced to swim is very ridiculous ; he hates water 

 and roars and moans if forced to face it. Unload one by one, 

 put one man on his back, and let six others push him down the 

 bank, a steep slide from which he goes souse into the water, have 

 men after them shouting and splashing water in their faces, till 

 at last thev were out of their depth, then they resign themselves 



