CAMEL. il'5' 



ommerciai journeys, in which the route is frequently 

 of seven or eight hundred miles, be no quicker than 

 "it is here described, their predatory expeditions ara 

 diiiereiitiy conducted. The camel, as well as hi 

 master, is trained to these scenes of desultory war- 

 fare, and by every art him: fed to hunger, thirst, and 

 fatigue. The plundering Arab will, in one day/ if 

 pursued, pass over a tract of desert of fifty miles. Ifi 

 this manner h.e -will travel in those dreary solitudes; 

 and during all that time of excessive fatigue, the 

 camels are never unloaded ; only a single hour of. re- 

 pose, and a ball of paste, for food, is allowed them 

 each day. In this manner they often journey eight 

 or nine' days without meeting with any water, and 

 during all this long space of time they can travel 

 without drinking, while they carry water mostly in 

 leather bags for the use of their masters. It is hence 

 evident, that all the armies in the world would be in- 

 adequate to the pursuit of a troop of Arabs, and would 

 infallibly perish should they presist in such an at- 

 tempt. 



It is somewhat extraordinary, that the camels, when 

 theV arrive in the vicinity of a spring, or pool of wa- 

 ter, discover it by its smell at the distance of more 

 than a mile. Thirst then excites them to redouble 

 their pace, and when arrived, they drink as much as 

 serves thenr during the rest of their journey, even 

 should it continue some weeks, which is not unfre- 

 irjuently the case. 



Of all the quadrupeds, with which the earth is re- 

 plenished, the camel is the most tame and submissive ; 

 he kneels down to be loaded and unloaded, and when 

 over-burdened, it rnakes the most piteous complaints", 

 without ever offering the least resistance to his op- 

 pressor. If, however, his patience be extraordinary, 

 it is much to be feared that, under the hand of re- 

 kntless man, his sufferings are sometime:? extreme. 



Camels have a considerable share of intelligence ; 

 and the Arabs assert, that they are so extremely sen- 

 sible of injustice and ill-treatment, that when this is 

 too far, the milictor will not find it easy to 



