CHAPTER XIII. 
Plate XXVI. — stomach of the camel. 
The figure in this plate exhibits the cells in the stomach of the 
camel , from a preparation in the museum of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, London. In the camel, dromedary, and lama, there are 
four stomachs, as in horned ruminants; but the structuie, in some 
respects, differs from those of the latter. The camel tribe have in 
the first and second stomach numerous cells, several inches deep, 
formed by bands of muscular fibres crossing each other at right an¬ 
gles ; these are constructed so as to retain the water, and complete¬ 
ly exclude the food. In a camel dissected by Sir E. Home, the cells 
of the stomach were found to contain two gallons of water; but in 
consequence of the muscular contraction, which had taken place 
immediately after death, he was led to conclude this was a quanti¬ 
ty much less than these cavities were capable of receiving in the 
living animal. See Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, by Sir E. 
] lome, vol. l. p. 168. 
Mr. Bruce states, in his Travels, that he procured four gallons of 
water from a camel, which from necessity he slaughtered in Upper 
Egypt. 
