44 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



appears to be the principal place where the combats of 

 camels are among the public amusements. 



But beside the use of his formidable teeth, in resisting 

 the ill treatment of man, or the aggressions of dogs or 

 hysenas, the Camel kicks with the hind feet and strikes 

 with the fore. We have an instance related by an eye-wit- 

 ness of the dreadful bite of this animal, which happened in 

 India, when a Must Camel (one furious in the rutting ex- 

 citement) tore off the arm of a lad, whose person was with 

 difficulty rescued from tte further grasp of the ferocious 

 beast ; which, when the victim was withdrawn, stood in 

 terrific exultation over the torn limb, nor suffered any one 

 to approach it, till his attention was attracted by some 

 other object. Under these paroxysms of fury, and also during 

 copulation, they foam at the mouth, and protrude from be- 

 tween their teeth a membranous bag of a blood-red colour, 

 which hangs on one or the other side of the 'mouth, and 

 appears, by the late investigation of Professor Savi of Pisa, 

 to be no other than the uvula, which, contrary to what we 

 find the case in others, is in adults of this genus greatly 

 developed, and so constituted as to be inflateable and pro- 

 truded under certain circumstances of excitement. There 

 remains, however, some doubt whether this organization 

 is absolutely similar in all the Camels, it having been ob- 

 served at Paris in some, and not in others, a circumstance 

 which Mr. Ritcher of Konigsberg considers as perhaps an 

 indication of difference of species. 



Although the external appearance of the Camel is disa- 

 greeable, his memory is good ; this enables man to train him 

 to lie down to receive his load, and again to be unloaded : 

 some it is said will even assist in the performance of 

 this business, but the burden imposed upon them must 

 not exceed their strength, or they will refuse to rise, and 

 become very obstinate. From the great docility and pa- 

 tience of the animal, evinced by the numbers which con- 



