32 WAITING IN THE WILDERNESS 



taking small fossils from hard rock. Two days 

 were spent in getting out the eleven small bones 

 of this find. 



"The boy has made another good find and 

 if he continues making discoveries he will 

 early be able to have a circus parade of strange 

 animals which the cook keeps planning." At 

 this point a dash of wind filled the scientist's face 

 with smoke and ashes from the camp-fire. 



"Don't let that specimen be lost beneath an- 

 other ash shower," called the cook. 



There came another swirl of wind throwing 

 ashes, shadows, and fire light against the standing 

 spruces, and the scientist sat down but continued 

 with "The boy has found a prize that Barnum 

 would have turned into a fortune. It is a tiny 

 camel 1 about three feet high." 



Amid the shouts and laughter someone called, 

 "There ain't no such animal." 



"Camels," continued the scientist, "origi- 

 nated and developed in America. During the 

 Miocene Epoch, when America, Asia, and Europe 

 were broadly connected in the north by the so- 

 called land bridges, thousands of camels and 

 horses appear to have become travellers and mi- 

 grated to Europe and Asia where they concluded 

 to stay. While the camels and American horses 

 were going to those countries, America was re- 

 ceiving the rhinoceros and numbers of other 



