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CAMEL. 
mufick. In winter they are covered with long hair* 
which falls off in the fpring, and is carefully gaf 
thered, being wove into fluffs, and alfo cloths to 
cover tents. In fummer their hair is fhort. Before i 
the great heats the owners fmear their bodies, to j 
keep off the flies. The Arabs are very fond of the 
Belli * of young camels. The milk of thefe ani¬ 
mals is their principal fubfiftence ; and the dung of 
camels is the fuel ufed by the Caravans in the tra¬ 
vels over the deferts. 
There are varieties among the camels. The Turk¬ 
man is the largeft and ftrongeft. The Arabian is 
s hardy. What is called the Dromedary , Mai- 
hary , and Raguahl , is very fwift. The common 
fort travel about 30 miles a day. The laft, which 
has a lefs bunch, and more delicate fhape, and alfo 
much inferior in fize, never carries burdens; but 
is ufed to ride on. In Arabia , they are trained for 
running matches : and in many places, for carrying 
couriers, who can go above ioo miles a day. on 
them, and that for nine days together,** over burn¬ 
ing deferts unhabitable by any living creature. The 
Cbinefe call thefe fwift camels, expreffively, Fong 
Kyo to , or camels With feet of the wind. T he Afri¬ 
can camels are the mold hardy, having more diflant 
and more dreadfull deferts to pais over than any 
of the others, from Numidia to the kingdom of 
Ethiopia. She Chin , a Chinefe phyfician, fays, that 
camels are found wild N. W. of his country f. 
* Athenaus relates, that the Per/ian monarchs had whole camels 
■ferved up to their table. Lib. iv. p. 130, as the Romans had whole 
boars. 
** Leo Afr. 338. 
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