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ferves for Jitter * to themfelves, as well as to 

 horfcs, with which people frequently travel t 

 in countries where no hay or ftraw can be had. 

 In fine, their dung makes excellent fewel. It 

 burns freely J, gives as clear and nearly as 

 hot a flame as dry wood, and is of great ufe 

 in the deferts, where not a tree is to be found, 

 and where, for want of combuftible materials, 

 fire is as fcarce as water §. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



Having little to add to what has been faid 

 with regard to the camel and dromedary, we 



K 2 ihall 



* Their own dung ferves them for litter. For this purpofe 

 it is expofed to the fan during the day, which dries It ib 

 completely, that it crumbles down into a kind of powder, 

 which is carefully fpread for litter ; Relation de Thsvenoty 



A 73- 



f The ancients tell us, without any foundation, that the 

 camels have a great antipathy to horfes. I could not learn, 

 fays Oleariiis, why Pliny, after Xenophon, fhould advance, 

 that camels have an averfion to horfes. When I mentioned it 

 to the Perfians, they laughed at me. . . . There is hardly a 

 caravan In which there are not camels, horfes, and affes, all 

 lodged promifcuoufly together, without difcovering the fmall- 

 eft averfion or animofity againft each other ; Voyage d , Olearius > 

 torn. 1. p. 553. 



\ The camels dung left by fome caravans, which had gone 

 before us, generally ferved us for fewel ; for, after being ex- 

 pofed a day or two to the fun, it is eafily inflamed, and burns 

 as clear and with as ftrong a heat as dried wood or charcoal ; 

 Shaw's travels. 



§ Hift. Nat. des animaux, par Men". Arnault de Nobleville 

 jpt Sakrne, torn. 4. p. 313. 



