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ORDER/? UMINANTIA. 



THE ONE-HUMPED CAMEL. (Camelus dromedarius, Linn.) 



Of camels there are two species, the one-humped Arabian 

 camel (C. dromedarius), and the two-humped Bactrian camel 

 (C. Bactrianus). The former inhabits Arabia, all the northern 

 district of Africa (which extends in length from Egypt to 

 Mauritania, and in breadth from the Mediterranean Sea to the 

 river Senegal), Egypt, Abyssinia, Persia, Southern Tartary, and 

 parts of India. The Bactrian camel is extremely rare, except 

 in Turkistan, which is the ancient Bactria, and in Thibet, as 

 far as the deserts of Shamo, near the frontiers of China. 

 Sometimes he travels with caravans into Egypt, but rarely. 

 Niebuhr says, he saw but two specimens of the two-humped 

 camel during his travels in Arabia ; and Mr. M'Farlane never 

 observed but one in Asia Minor, which came from some remote 



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