WILD CAMELS IN EUROPE. 101 



friend Antonio Trujillo tells us that some years ago he 

 came on one stuck in a bog. For six days he was unable 

 to reach the spot, and daily watched the poor beast help- 

 lessly floundering. On the seventh day he found it 

 possible to assist the camel to escape. All around within 

 reach of the poor creature's mouth, he found that the very 

 earth was eaten away. Yet when helped to regain firm 

 ground, the camel walked quietly away, apparently but little 

 the worse, and was soon browsing heartily on the tops of 

 some young pine-trees. 



It is, perhaps, worth adding, in reference to the antipathy 

 shown by horses towards camels, that when during the 

 night bands of the latter have occasionally strayed from the 

 marismas to the vicinity of our shooting-lodge of Doiiana, 

 at once a commotion has broken out in the stables, though 

 placed in an enclosed square. All at once the horses have 

 begun shrieking, kicking, and displaying every sign of fear, 

 which could only be explained by their detecting the 

 effluvia of some passing camels. 



