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THE DROMEDARY. 
These camels were, like those of Nubia, i’’ 
general of a white colour. 
Some of the tribes of the desert keep cartiel® 
almost entirely for the sake of their milk an^ 
flesh, very few being employed as beasts 
burden : these appear to be frightened at tb^ 
approach of man, and also of loaded camel®' 
In the Arabian and Syrian deserts, the camel®' 
when grazing, come running and frolickia^ 
in rather an unwieldy manner towards 
strange camel, which they readily percefr^ 
and at a great distance. They will easil/ 
obey the call even of strangers, if they ai'® 
Bedouins, like their own masters. 
The dromedary is not a different speci^f' 
but only a distinct breed of the camel ; A 
to a camel what a racer is to a horse of 
den. There are dromedaries as well as cain®^® 
with both one and two humps. 
The dromedary has for two centuries be^^ 
reared at Pisa in Italy ; but it has degeO®' 
