CHAPTER XIII. 

 Tab. XXVI. — stomach of the camel. 



The figure in this plate exhibits the cells in the stomach of 

 the camel, fi'om a prepai*ation- in the museum of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, London. In the camel, dromedary, and 

 lama, there are four stomachs, as in horned ruminants ; but 

 the structure, in some respects, differs from those of the lat- 

 ter. The camel tribe have in the first and second stomach 

 nmnerous cells, several inches deep, formed by bands of mus- 

 cular fibres crossing each other at right angles ; these are 

 constructed so as to retain the water, and completely exclude 

 the food. In a camel dissected by Sir E. Home, the ceils of 

 the stomach were found to contain two gallons of water ; but 

 in consequence of the muscular contraction, wliich had taken 

 place immediately after death, he was led to conclude this 

 was a quantity much less than these cavities were capable of 

 receiving in the hving animal. See Lectures on Compara- 

 tive Anatomy, by Sir E. Home, vol. i. p. 168. 



Mr. Bruce states, in his Travels, that he procured four gal- 

 lons of water from a camel, which from necessity he slaugh- 

 tered in Upper Egypt. 



