WILD CAMELS IN EUROPE. 



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friend Antonio Trujillo tells us that some years ago he 

 came on one stuck in a bog. For six daj^s be was unal)le 

 to reach the spot, and daily watched the poor beast help- 

 lessly floundering. On the seventh day he found it 

 possible to assist the camel to escape. All around within 

 reach of the poor creature's mouth, he found that the ver}- 

 earth was eaten awa}'. Yet when helped to regain firm 

 ground, the camel walked quietly away, apparently but little 

 the worse, and was soon browsing heartily on the tops of 

 some young pine-trees. 



It is, perhaps, worth adding, in reference to the antipathy 

 shown by horses towards camels, that when during the 

 night bands of the latter have occasionally strayed from the 

 marismas to the vicinity of our shooting-lodge of Doiiana, 

 at once a commotion has broken out in ths' dtabl(5s, tho'ug'h 

 placed in an enclosed square. All at oiice the horses bate 

 begun shrieking, kicking, and displaying 'everj^sign of feaav' 

 which could only be explained bj' their detecting the 

 effluvia of some passing camels. 



