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this sort are usually compensated in long jour- 

 neys, and I have no doubt that Robinson's es- 

 timate is as near an approximation to the truth 

 as the nature of the case admits. 



The length of the caravan day's journey, when 

 there is no special motive for haste, is regulated 

 by the distance between wells and pasture- 

 grounds; but it is seldom less than ten, and 

 more frequently twelve or fourteen hours, and in 

 most countries the entire day's journey is per- 

 formed without a halt. Burnes says, the camel 

 of Bokhara travels fourteen successive hours, or 

 about thirty miles per day, and that on one oc- 

 casion he accomplished seventy miles with a 

 caravan in forty-four hours, stops included. 

 Burckhardt travelled at the rate of ten hours per 

 day, for thirty-five days together, resting only a 

 single day. Lyon 1 says the camels of the Sahara 

 march without a halt from sixteen to twenty 

 hours, and many other travellers confirm these 

 accounts, all of which refer to the camelus 

 dromedarius, or one-humped camel. 



But this falls short of the ordinary perform- 

 ances of the Bactrian of the Crimea and indepen- 

 dent Tartary. Bergmann states the ordinary 

 day's journey of this variety at forty miles, and 

 without burden, at from fifty to sixty-five miles. 

 Correspondents of my own, who have had long 

 1 Travels in Africa, 91. 



