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some countries carry flutes to cheer and enliven 

 their animals when weary with the march. In 

 my narrow experience, I have witnessed no suc^h 

 practice, but the Arabs often commence towards 

 the close of the day's journey, a wild chant in 

 the minor key ' which, as they allege, percepti- 

 bly enlivens and inspirits the camel, but I can- 

 not say that I have seen any very obvious 

 effects from it. 



Hammer- Purgstall, p. 69, observes that " the 

 drivers accomplish more by the chant than by 

 blows," and that the Arabs have words to desig- 

 nate the particular effect of song on the music- 

 loving camel. " The camel," says he, p. 95, 

 " loves singing better than mere shouting, and 

 marches more cheerfully to its tones. The 

 chanting driver, no longer urging his beast by 

 blows or words, does not follow the camel, but 

 walks before him. Camels particularly fond of 

 singing have special names, and there are appel- 

 lations appropriated to musical drivers ; it even 

 appears that caravans are accompanied by 



1 The music of the Arabs is hardly reducible to our sys- 

 tem of notation. The musical reader will find a very curi- 

 ous article on this subject in one of the early volumes of the 

 transactions of the American Oriental Society. It is an 

 Essay on Arab music by Mr. Meshaka, a highly cultivated 

 Christian Arab of Deir el Hamer in Syria, with notes and 

 additions by Prof. Salisbury of Yale College. 



