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ARABIAN CAMEL OR DROMEDARY. 
proach to the water stations. These will travel from 
seventy to one liundred and twenty miles in the 
twenty-four hours. 
It is related by a modern traveller, “ That one of 
these animals will in one night, and through a level 
country, traverse as much ground as any single horse 
can perform in ten. It was often affirmed to him 
by the Arabs and Moors, that it makes nothing of 
holding its rapid pace, which is a most violent hard 
trot, for four and twenty hours upon a stretch, with- 
out shewing the least sign of weariness, or inclina- 
tion to bait, and that having then swallowed a ball 
or two of a sort of paste, made up of barley, and 
perhaps a little powder of dates among it, with a 
bowl of water, or camel’s milk, if to be had, and 
which the courier seldom forgets to be provided 
with in skins, as well for the sustenance of himself 
as of his pegasus, the indefatigable animal will seem 
as fresh as at first setting out, and ready to continue 
running at the same scarce credible rate for as many 
hours longer, and so on from one extremity of the 
African desert to the other.”* 
They are sometimes also trained to run races, and 
are extremely fleet. The same traveller relates, that, 
at the celebration of a royal marriage, the bride, 
“ Among other entertainments she gave her guests, 
a favourite white dromedary was brought forth, ready 
saddled and bridled ; the thong, which serves instead 
Morgan’s Algiers. 
