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and ouly their noses appear. They swim steadily but shjwly, 

 and on landing bolt off scampering and kicking. 



The Anazell now ride dehils instead ot" mares, a result of in- 

 troduction of fire arms. 150,000 seems to be about the number of 

 their camels ; those from Nejd are less esteemed than the 

 common sort ; they are smaller scraggier, and give less milk. 



Camel-owning tribes of Bedouins are perpetually on move. 

 Calving time is in February and March when tlio tribe is at 

 extreme south where much ghur kudd, a thorny tree o feet high, 

 stem reddish, leaves fleshy and green. After this they travel 

 north, 2 miles per hour never exceeded, doing 8 — 10 miles daily. 



Appendix V.— DENTITION. 



The following are the conclusions to be drawn from a study of 

 the appended plates drawn, ad nut. and diagramatically, from 

 the specimens in the Museum of the Aldershot Army Veteri- 

 nary School, and each examined as to the age by an expert, 

 Veterinary Surgeon (1st Class) J. A. Nunn. The lower jaw 

 is the main guide. At four years of age it contains the rem- 

 nants of the central, primary and secondary intermediate, and 

 corner temporary teeth which have become (except the lat- 

 ter) worn down to stumps, and they are wide apart. The outer 

 edge of the front teeth shows a very peculiar indication of wear 

 in the form of a deep groove where the tooth has become notched 

 by dragging along tough fodder stalks The permanent central 

 incisors are now coming through and displace the corresponding- 

 temporary tooth from above and within. They come up as very 

 broad sharp white edges {viiJe Plate I). Thus the four year 

 old and " rising five " mouth is a regular wreck in general appear- 

 ance, consisting merely, as far as teeth are concerned, of a number 

 of ugly and inefficient stumps, wide apart, perhaps some being 

 loosened by the growing permanent teeth which are visible as a 

 cause of disturbance of the temporary set and have either been 

 cut or bulge under the gum. Slight traces of the tushes may 

 now be detectible in the form of a bulging of the gum where 

 they will come thi-ough (Plate II, B. 1 and 2). 



.1^ fct yearn the central permanents project squarely forward 



