CAMELIDE 297 
is quite unknown in a wild state, but it is reported that wild 
Bactrian Camels occur in the more remote parts of Turkestan. The 
latter species is found in a domesticated state throughout a large 
portion of Turkestan and the neighbouring region, extending as far 
as the Crimea in the west and to Lake Baikal and Pekin in the 
east. It is a heavier and more clumsy animal than the Arabian 
Camel, with thicker hair, shorter legs, and the feet more callous 
and better adapted to a hard ground. The hair is most developed 
upon the top of the head, neck, humps, arm, and wrist. Bactrian 
Camels are occasionally brought over the stupendous mountain 
Fic. 114.—The Bactrian Camel (Camelus_bactrianus). 
passes south of Yarkand to within a few days’ journey of Leh, in 
Kashmir territory. 
The Arabian Camel is commonly employed as a beast of burden 
in Africa and India, and has of late years been introduced into 
Australia for the same purpose ; it is especially valuable in crossing 
long stretches of arid desert from its power of existing for a con- 
siderable period of time without water. The female goes fully 
eleven months with young, and produces but a single calf at a 
birth, which is suckled for a whole year. In disposition the Camel 
is surly and subject to furious outbursts of temper, especially during 
the rutting season. Atsuch periods the male utters a peculiar and 
highly disagreeable bubbling noise in its throat, well known to all 
who have travelled in India with Camels as their transport. It has 
been said that the Camel is docile, but Palgrave observes :— 
the two-humped Camel extant, painted on the wall of the Chapter House of 
Westminster Abbey, has, however, ‘‘ Dromedary” inscribed under it. 
