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the earliest morn, and to lead or follow your briglit cavalcade 

 till sunset through forests and mountain passes, through val- 

 leys and desolate plains, all this becomes your Mode of Life^ 

 and you ride, eat, drink, and curse the mosquitoes, as system- 

 atically as your friends in England eat, drink, and sleep. If 

 you are wise, you will not look upon the long period of time 

 thus occupied by your journeys as the mere gulfs which divide 

 you from the place to which you are going, but rather as the 

 most rare and beautiful portions of your life, from which may 

 come temper and strength. Once feel this, and you w^ill soon 

 grow happy and contented in your saddle-home." 



" It is so sweet to find one's self free from the stale civilization 

 of Europe ! Oh, my dear Ally, when first you spread your car- 

 pet in the midst of these fresh scenes, do think for a moment of 

 those of your fellow-creatures that dw^ell in squares and streets, 

 and even (for such is the fate of many) in actual country 

 houses — think of the people that are 'presenting their com- 

 pliments,' and ' requesting the honor,' and ' much regretting' 

 of those who are pinioned at dinner-tables, or stuck up in ball- 

 rooms, or cruelly planted in pews ; aye, think of these, and so, 

 remembering how many poor devils are living in a state of 

 utter respectability, you will glory all the more in your own 

 delightful escape." 



Importation into the United States. 



When we reflect on the eminent usefulness of the camel in 

 the East, and the vast numbers that there contribute in various 

 ways to man's comfort and support, it appears, at first sight, 

 matter of surprise that he has not hitherto been introduced to 

 any general extent upon this continent. All the great nations 

 of the old world, possessing wide tracts of unoccupied or thinly- 

 settled country — the Chinese, Tartar, Persian, Eussian, Arab, 

 Turk, and Egyptian — use the camel. Some of these have used 

 him from the beginning ; but none that have once enjoyed his 

 services have manifested any subsequent disposition to forego 

 them. On the contrary, in Kussia, European Turkey, and 

 Western Africa, the uses of this valuable animal are becoming 

 daily better appreciated and more widely extended. In Al- 

 geria, where the French have constructed magnificent roads at 

 enormous expense, the camel remains the favorite means of 



