THE MAHARI, OR WAR-CAMEL. 



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varieties of this species: The Brown dromedary, also called, but 

 improperly, the Caucasian dromedary he is brown, like the Bactrian 

 camel, and his short squat limbs indicate strength rather than agility; 

 the White dromedary, of a very transparent colour, and of slender 

 figure; and the Egyptian dromedary, larger than either of the pre- 

 ceding, and with body and limbs uniformly clothed in short gray hair. 

 But the Arabs distinguish only two races : the Djemel, or camel of 



2. The DjemeL 



burden, which is no other, probably, than the Caucasian dromedary; 

 and the Mahari, or camel for the saddle and war, whose name seems 

 to apply equally to the two other varieties. 



The mahari is to the djemel what our chargers are to our cart- 

 horses, or, as the Arabs say, what the djend (noble) is to the kheddim 

 (the servant). He has a very sure foot, a free, sustained, and rapid 



