146 THE CAMEL 



twentieth part of theexpence. Befides, the whole 

 fpccics are fubjected to man, who propagates and 

 multiplies them at pleafure. But he has no fuch 

 dominion over the elephants, whom he cannot 

 multiply, and the individuals of which he con- 

 quers wuh great labour and difficulty. The ca- 

 mel is not only more valuable than the elephant, 

 but he is perhaps equal inutility to thehorfe, the 

 ais, and the ox, when their powers are united. 

 He carries as much as two mules, though he 

 eats as little, and feeds upon herbs equally coarfe, 

 as the afs. The female furnifhes milk longer 

 than the cow *. The rlefh of young camels is 

 as good and wholefome *(* as veal. Their hair is 

 finer J and more in requeft than the beft wool. 

 Even their excrements are ufeful ; for fal am- 

 moniac is made of their urine, and their dung 



ferves 



* Park in vere, et lac fuum ufquc eo fervat quo jam con- 

 ceperit ; Arifl Hijl. anim. lib. 6. cap. 26. — Foemina pod par- 

 turn interpolito anno coit ; Id. lib. 5. cap. 14. 



f The Africans and Arabs fill their pots and tubs with ca- 

 mels flefh, which is fried with greafe, and preferved in this 

 manner during the whole year for their ordinary repails ; 

 & Afrique de Marmot, torn. 1. p. 5©. — Praeter alia animalia 

 quorum carnem in cibo plurimi faciunt, cameli in magno ho- 

 nore exidunt ; in Arabum principum cailris cameli plures 

 unius anni aut biennes maclantur, quorum carnes avide co- 

 medunt, eafque odoratas, iuaves, atque optimas effe fatentur ; 

 Profp Alpin. Hijl. JEgypt. part. I. ... 226. 



% Socks are made of the camel's hair ; and, in Perfia, fine 

 girdles are made of it, fome of which, efpecially when white, 

 coft two tomans, becaufe camels of this colour are rare ; i?^ 

 lotion ds Thevenot, torn. 2. p. 223. 



