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no matter what part of the world, whether on the 

 confines of China or in the northern parts of Africa 

 the uses and treatment of the camel have been identical, 

 also the conditions and circumstances that have sur- 

 rounded him. And he has toiled, drudged, and slaved 

 for man from the very beginning until now with the 

 same stolid patience of stupidity, and the same wrapped- 

 up conservatism of character. In fact, I quite believe, 

 if the truth were known, that the camel was a purely 

 conservative evolution, evolved solely for the purpose 

 of domestic drudgery. 



It is my invariable rule to take a man as I find him, Remarks 



on the 



and I have always acted on this principle with regard want of 



J . _ instinct 



to the animal species. I am speaking now of the camel and mtei- 

 as I have found him, under every degree and variety of camels 

 condition and circumstance, and I must confess that I 

 have never seen a single specimen that was gifted with 

 intelligence, while I have never come across one that 

 showed any special form of instinct, except the ordinary 

 ones of existence, propagation, and preservation. On 

 the contrary, taking camels as a class, I have found 

 their instincts to be of a decidedly low dull type. I 

 will even go further and say, that I do not think if we 

 took a camel in hand from its very infancy, subjected 

 it to quite a different mode of treatment, one of kindness 

 and fellowship, as in the case of a favourite horse or 

 dog an impossibility, I should imagine, this latter 

 and if we continued this treatment for several genera- 

 tions, or say longer, that even by then would reason 

 have been developed in the offspring ; though I think improve- 

 it quite probable that this humaner and kinder form of instinct 



probable 



treatment, necessitating closer contact and association 



