CAMEL. 
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THE BACtRIAN OR TWO-BUNCHED CAMEL. 
We mention this variety merely to distinguish it 
from the dromedary, which has but one bunch, 
while this invariably has two : in every other re- 
spect the Bactrian camel is like the dromedary, and 
is as much employed by the Tartars as the single- 
bunched is by the Arabians. This is an extremely 
hardy animal, and will even bear the severe climate 
of Siberia, where numbers of them are to be found 
about the lake Baikal, though they are said to be 
far less than those which inhabit Western Tartary. 
Du Halde, in his History of China, has not forgot- 
ten the medical qualities of the camel, whose fat, or, 
as the people call it, oil of bunches , is celebrated for 
the cure of ulcers, consumptions, &c. 
