1184 On the Wooi I of the Bactrian, or two- humped Camel. [No. 132. 



between them. These openings (or cracks they might almost be 

 termed) are ordinarily concealed, except to touch, beneath the hair. 



Such a formation is awkward, as the weight is necessarily thrown 

 so much to the rear, that theanimal's loins and sides are generally 

 dreadfully galled by the constant swinging or rubbing motion of the 

 load. 



The cross-breed is termed " Boghdi." 



This Hybrid Camel is in much repute among the northern tribes, 

 and furnishes them at all seasons with an invaluable beast of burthen 

 in a climate where neither one nor the other of the true species could 

 be made available throughout the year. Art may be said therefore to 

 have furnished what nature has denied them. The two-humped camel 

 is said to be so impatient of heat, that it cannot endure the summer 

 warmth even of so northerly a country as Bokhara, and this I can 

 readily give credence to, since I had lately an opportunity of watching 

 the habits of one of these animals which I purchased at Candahar. 

 No sooner did the sun (even in December and January) fall upon 

 the side of the yard where this animal usually stood to feed, than he 

 walked over to the shade of the opposite buildings, as if conscious that 

 his woolly coat was not adapted for summer weather. 



During the warm months, therefore, the Bactrian Camel would not 

 properly be available in more favoured climates than its own, and 

 during that season, the Bokhara people would be deprived of their 

 " Desert ships." 



Again, the Dromedary, or one-humped male, can on the other hand 

 endure but a moderate degree of cold, and the northern tribes would 

 thus for many months be deprived of its services. 



To obviate these evils, they have crossed the breeds, and obtained 

 an animal capable of enduring alike the heats of summer, and the 

 cold of winter. His limbs are large and powerful, his chest broad and 

 ample, his shoulder strong and heavy, to bear the jolts and shaking 

 he experiences in ascending and descending the rugged mountain 

 passes and defiles, through which, heavily laden, he is doomed to 

 travel for long and fatiguing inarches. 



No beast could be better adapted for the work he has to perform, or 

 the climates he has to endure, for in him are united the perfections 

 and capabilities of both species. His constitution derived from both, 



