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seqoently not unattended bj' personal danger. They are 

 spread over a vast tract of eastern territorj', and exist in 

 great abundance in the archipelago of the Papuas, to the 

 north of the Moluccas, and the westward of New-Guinea. 

 It would even appear that two wild species occur in the 

 Celebes (independent of Sus babyrussa), and some writers 

 maintain the opinion that there exists in the Indian and Chi- 

 nese dominions a species of wild-boar distinct from that of 

 Europe, and the more probable source from which the 

 Siamese breed and that of China have been derived. Thus 

 if the domestic races peculiar to, or characteristic of, the 

 northern and temperate part of Europe have sprung (as we 

 think cannot be doubted) from the wild-boar {Sus aper), we 

 shall have three distinct sources from which to trace the 

 rise and progress of domestic swine.* 



The Ruminating order is the next in succession to that 

 cf which we have just treated, and contains many of the 

 species from which man derives his most valuable supplies 

 both of food and raiment. The order may be divided into 

 two great divisions, — those without horns, and such as are 

 provided with those weapons. 



The camel (C Bactnanus), by which term the two- 

 humped species is usually designated, is indigenous to the 

 central deserts of Asia, and is used as a beast of burden in 

 Turkestan and Thibet, and even as far north as the shores 

 of Lake Baikal. The more abundant and better-known 

 species, which is in fact the dromedary (C dromedarnis), 

 is now spread over the whole of Arabia, Syria, and Persia. 

 It is this species which in India precede the nabobs on state- 

 occasions to fire salutes ; and IMajor Hamilton Smith 

 informs us that the East India Company maintains a corps 

 of dromedaries, mounted fay two men each, and armed 

 with musketoons or swivels. These animals are very 

 savage at particular seasons. An instance is related of a 

 must-camel (an individual rendered furious by the excite- 

 ment of the ruttincr-season) tearinj; off a young man's arm 

 in India : the writhing body of his victim was with dim- 



* See Forrest's Voyage to New-Guinea ; some observations by An- 

 loine Desmoulinsin the Diction. Cla-ss. d'Hist. Nat., torn. iv. p. 271 ; and 

 aae Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, voL iii. p. 50, note. 



