126 THE CAMEL (DROMEDARY VARIETY). 
pulsation at the jaw; dilatation of the pupils; loss of vision, 
and, towards the last, excessive stupor or unconsciousness. By a 
close inquiry, however, into the previous history of the animal, and 
carefullv regarding the symptoms both separately and collectively, 
the wary practitioner will experience, perhaps, but little difficulty 
in deciding the true nature of the case. 
THE CAMEL (DROMEDARY VARIETY). 
By J. T. Hodgson, Finchley. 
The Honourable East India Company’s breeding flock graze 
over the provinces of Delhi and Aginere throughout the year, 
without shelter, and are sheared and oiled in April or May. 
They get a little salt monthly, and now and then cordials. 
The males go with the flock, one to fifty females. The females 
produce from November to April; and they will not take 
the male again for a year, if the young lives: if it dies before 
April, they take the male again this season. They have been 
forced when their young were alive, but they never held. The 
young are weaned at eighteen months. Twins had never been 
produced, and there were upwards of 2000 females. The camel- 
people say they are produced occasionally, but very seldom, 
and always dead; and it is considered unlucky to keep a female 
camel that has produced twins. The first year about 8 per cent, 
cast their young; the two last years, owing to the extreme heavy 
and continued rain, were very unfavourable to camels : 10 and 
14 per cent, cast; say, average 10 per cent. Barren camels are 
rare; of the 2000 females, 1000 take and hold to the male yearly 
on an average. Difficult births are very rare. The female pro¬ 
duce take the male at about two-and-a-half or three years old. 
The natives give the female the male at two years old. The 
female goes twelve months with young. If the female is kept too 
long without the male, they do not hold so often. Males are used 
to breed from by the natives at four years old, but, as improvement 
was the object, not till five years old in this flock. About four- 
and-a-half or before five years old the central milk teeth are 
changed, two the next year, and two more the year after. The 
four tushes are changed by the time they are eight years old. The 
male produce are caught at four-and-a-half or five years old, 
are broken in easily in ten days, and sent to the army : they are 
in prime at nine, and live till twenty. As the male camel is apt to 
be vicious, and to bite, particularly in the breeding season, some 
were gelt: the army, however, thought gelt camels did not work 
so well as entire ones. The ordinary food of a camel in work with 
