p- 



156,000 



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37,440 



41,600 





1,000 







42,600 

 22,560 



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15,120 



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3,600 



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2,680 



1839.] Camel draught to Carriages. 603 



hide will require 16 animals. Taking the calculation at 13 carriages 

 and 208 Dromedaries, the following will be the annual expense of the 

 latter, reckoning beans at p. 60 the ardeb. 



2,600 ardebs of beans, at 60, 

 374,400 Okes cut straw, ... . 



104 Feddans Berseem, 



Rafeeahs, 



52 Boys, at 35 p. month, 



20 Men, at 60 ditto, 



1 Nazir, at 300, 



Incidental expenses, say, 



280,000 £ 2,800 



To render the Dromedaries serviceable for bringing passengers from 

 Suez, as well as conveying them to that place, it is requisite to add 52 

 Dromedaries (increasing the annual expense one fourth,) to be placed 

 at the Suez station, at the same time doubling the number of carriages. 

 The latter would, at each end of the journey, await the arrival of the 

 following steamer, but for the intermediate time the animals should be 

 withdrawn from the stations to the neighbourhood of Cairo, where alone 

 they could be fed with economy, and be properly looked after. 



For both mules and dromedaries there must be some expense atten- 

 ding the carriage of beans to Suez, and there may also be an occasional 

 outlay for water at the stations in the desert. In the event of the former 

 being employed, each mule would, on ordinary occasions, carry a bag of 

 beans and a small girbeh of water, sufficient for the 30 hours passed in 

 the desert ; and if carriages be adopted, the dromedaries sent forward 

 for relays will take with them a quantity of beans and straw sufficient 

 for the journey. In either case the detention of the animals at Suez 

 should be as short as possible, not only on account of the great additi- 

 onal expense of feeding them there, but the bad condition which is apt 

 to result from the continued use of brackish water. 



In the above estimates I have only calculated the number of animals, 

 whether mules or dromedaries, required for the transit of 100 passen- 

 gers, but I need not observe that to provide for casualties a larger esta- 

 blishment would be required. The clover season too, in which the whole 

 stud must be turned out, will give rise to some inconvenience, that 

 must be anticipated and provided for. 



It will have been seen, by a comparison of the two estimates, that in 

 the annual expense of keeping mules for sedans, and dromedaries for 



