62 THE CAMEL. 



afterwards to two and three fourths, but without 

 any appearance of there being an intermediate 

 cavity ; at the largest part it was fourteen inches, 

 at the contracted part nine, at the largest part, 

 after it again dilated, nineteen, and at the pylorus 

 four inches. There were about forty or fifty longi- 

 tudinal plicse ; beyond these the lining mem- 

 brane was about half a line thick, firm and rough 

 on the surface, and there was seen the pecu- 

 liar rugous membrane that was described in the 

 female, except that the color here was cineri- 

 tious. The gland at the pylorus, as it has been 

 called, was two inches long, one inch wide, and 

 half an inch thick." 



It has often been said, that when desert trav- 

 ellers are reduced to extremity by thirst, their 

 camels are killed for the sake of the water to be 

 found in their stomachs. In a note to Russell's 

 History of Aleppo, the editor remarks, " That 

 water, in cases of emergency, is taken from the 

 stomach of camels, is a fact neither doubted in 

 Syria nor thought strange. I never was myself 

 in a caravan reduced to such an expedient, but 

 I had the less reason to distrust the report of 

 others, particularly of the Arabs, seeing that even 

 the love of the marvellous could in such a case 

 be no inducement to invention. It may, perhaps, 

 be superfluous to produce the authority of an 

 Arab historian, (Beidaw), who, in his account 



