CAMEL. 
In Turkey, Persia, Arabia, Barbarv, and 
Egypt, the whole commerce of the natives is 
carried on by means of ^^iiels ; and no car- 
riage is more speedy, nor can any be less ex- 
pensive. Merchants and travellers unite then:- 
selves into a body, furnished with Camels, i 
secure themselves from the insults of thos. 
robbers who infest the countries throng"; 
which they are to pass. This assemblage 
called a caravan, in which the number of iti- 
nerants sometimes amounts to upwards of ten 
thousand, and that of Camels to a still greater 
number. Each of these animals is loaded 
according to it's strength ; and, so sensible is 
the Camel of it's own abihtv, that it remains 
on it's belly when overloaded, and refuses t 
rise till it's load is proportioned to it's powers. 
A large Camel is capable of carrying a thou- 
sand weight, and sometimes twelve hundred , 
while the Dromedary is sufficientlv loaded wirh 
six or seven. During these trading journies, 
they travel but slowly ; and their stages, whicli 
are generally regulated, amount to about thirty 
or thirty-five miles ? dav. Each evening, when 
tliey arrive at the place of their destination, 
which 
