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During this period of motion and fatigue, his 

 camels are perpetually loaded, and he allows 

 thenij each day s one hour only for repofe, and a 

 ball of pafte. They often run in this manner 

 nine or ten days, without finding water * ; and 

 when, by chance, there is a pool atfomediftance, 

 they fcent the water half a league oiT*f , Thirft 

 makes them double their pace, and they drink 

 as much at once as ferves them for the time that 

 is paft, and as much to come ; for their jour- 

 neys often lalt feveral weeks, and their abftinence 

 continues an equal time. 



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than the other camels, and are ufed only for carrying men. 

 They have a fine foft trot, and eafily accomplifh forty leagues 

 a-day. The rider has only to keep a firm feat ; and fome 

 people, for fear of falling, are tied on ; Relation de Thevenct, 

 torn. I. p. 312. 



* The camel can difpenfe with drinking during four or 

 five days. A fmall quantity of beans and barley, or rather 

 fome morfels of pafte made of flour, are fufficient for his daily 

 nourifhment. This fa& I often experienced in my journey to 

 Mount Sinai. Though each of our camels carried feven 

 quintals, we travelled ten, and fometimes fifteen hours a day, 

 at the rate of two and a half miles every hour ; SkaixSj travels. 

 ■ — Adeo litim cameli tolerant, ut potu abfque incommodo die- 

 bus quindecim abftinere poflmt. Nociturus alioquin fi ca- 

 rnelarius triduo abfoluto aquam illis porrigat, quod fmgulis 

 quinis aut novenis diebus confueto more potentur vel urgentc 

 neceffitate quindenis ; Leon. Afric.de/cript. Africae, vol. 2. p. 749. 

 —The patience with which the camels fuffer third is truly 

 admirable. The laft time I travelled the deferts, which the 

 taravan did not clear in lefs than fixty-five days, our camels 

 were once nine days without drink ; becaufe, during all this 

 time, we found no water ; Voyage de Tavernier, torn. i.p. 162. 



f We arrived at a hilly country : At the foot of the hills 



were 



