118 THE CAMEL. 



tion this circumstance, and I should imagine 

 that, by giving the shafts a proper length, the 

 necessity of it might be avoided." 



The account given in the above extract cor- 

 responds with the descriptions of most travellers, 

 except in the nomenclature. The apparatus 

 styled moosultah in the extract is called by Burck- 

 hardt shekdof, by Seetzen schackadif, and Taver- 

 nier, Lyon, and Burnes apply the name of cajava 

 or kajawah to the mahafa^ for which latter term 

 I find no authority. Burnes complains, that in 

 travelling in a kajawah, he at first suffered from 

 sea-sickness, but he was able to read and take 

 notes, which is hardly practicable in any other 

 mode of camel-riding. A more extraordinary 

 vehicle than any Df the foregoing is -described 

 and figured by Layard. This is a light frame- 

 work of cane, sixteen or twenty feet long, cov- 

 ered with parchment and ornamented, as are 

 also the body and neck of the camel which bears 

 it, with tassels and fringes of worsted of every 

 hue, and strings of glass beads and shells. The 

 frame is balanced athwart the pack-saddle, and 

 in a sort of pavilion in the centre sits the high- 

 born lady, its occupant, the arms of the frame 

 extending on both sides like the wings of a but- 

 terfly, and not less gaudy and variegated. The 

 motion is described as swaying and uncomfort- 

 able. Of course, none of these contrivances ad- 



