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iilfoniied, is equal at leaft, if not fuperiour in Number tb the 

 other Beafts of Burthen already mentioned. 

 7:5.<- Maihary, That Species of the Camel-kind, which is known to us by 

 Dromedar''y. the Name of the Dramas or Dromedary , is here called 

 Maihiiry'\ though it is much rarer in Barhary than in the 

 Levant. It is chiefly remarkable for It's prodigious Swiftnefs* 

 the Arabs affirming , that It will run over as much Ground 

 in one Day, as one of their beft Horfes will perform in eight 

 or ten. The Shekh who conduced us to Mount Swat rode upon 

 a Camel of this Kind, and would frequently divert us with an 

 Inftance of It's great Abilities. For He would depart from 

 our Caravan, reconnoitre another juft in View, and return to 

 us again in lefs than a quarter of an Hour. It differeth from 

 the common Camel in being of a finer and rounder Shape, and 

 in having upon It's Back a lefl^r Bunch or Protuberance. 

 The Camel The Malcs of the Camel-Kind, from being tame and harm- 

 siZl"' ^lefs in all the other Seafons, become unruly in the Spring, the 

 ufual Time when they foUicit the Females. Their Familiarity 

 is generally in the Night, in the fame Manner with Creatures 

 of the Cat -Kind : the Sheath of the Terns (in thefe, no lefs 

 than in other Animals that reft a long time together upon their 

 lower Belly) being then brought forwards, which, at other 

 Times, Nature hath thrown backwards for the more conveni- 

 ent Difcharge of the Urine. The Females are pregnant near 

 a whole Year, or from one Spring to the other; and the young 

 Dromedaries, I am told, are blind, like Kittens or Puppies, 

 feveral Days after their Birth. 

 rhe Black After the Beafts of Burthen, we are to defcribe the Black 

 Cattle of this Country, which are generally very fmall and 

 flender ; the fatteft of them, when brought from the Stall, 

 rarely weighing above five or fix Quintals. Neither is their 

 Milk in Proportion to their Size : for notwithftanding the rich 

 Herbage of this Country from "Decemher to July, the Butter 

 hath never the Subftance or Richnefs of Tafte with what our 

 Engliflj Dairies afford us in the Depth of Winter. Abdy Bafljaw 

 the late Dey oi Algiers, was no lefs furprized than His Minifters, 



I yifabah rapporte que le Chameau dit Almahares ou dc Mahrah eft ainfi nomme a caufe 

 de Mahrah, fils de Hafndan, Fundateur d'une Tribu. j4l;ulf. de 1' Arable. 2 aJ ii fJ.^Kni 



Hift. Animal, l.j. cap. 2. Aliter fed male fcribit PHnius \. 10. cap. 6^. Coitus (inquit) averliis 

 elephantis, camclis, tigridibus, &c. quibus averfa genitalia. Idem d'tc'tt Solinus. Cap. 40. 



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