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Voracity of the Camel . 
Shakspeare has several allusions to the camel, but 
none to the dromedary. Chester, in his list of animals, 
1601, distinguishes between them :— 
“ The bunch-back’d, big-bon’d, swiffc-foote dromidary, 
Of dromas, the Greeke word, borrowing the name, 
For his quicke flying speedy property: 
Which easily these countrymen do tame. 
He’l go a hundred miles within one day, 
And never seeke in any place to stay. 
“ The camel is of nature flexible, 
For when a burden on his backe is bound, 
To ease the labourer, he is known most gentle, 
For why he kneeleth downe upon the ground: 
Suffering the man to put it off or on, 
As it seemes best in his discretion.” 
(Love’s Martyr , p. 110.) 
The camel was credited with a prodigious appetite, 
but considering the long fasts to which it was occasionally 
subjected this voracity was perhaps excusable. 
“ Anannestes. Why, lad, they be pure cameleons, they feed only 
upon air. 
“ Mendacio. Cameleons ? I’ll be sworn some of your fiddlers be 
rather camels, for, by their good wills, they will never leave eating.” 
(Brewer, Lingua, iv. i.) 
The Llama is the representative of the camel in the 
New World. There are several species, some 
of which are described by the early travellers. 
H. Brewer, in some notes on Chili and Peru, included in 
Churchill’s collection, gives the llama the appropriate 
name of the camel-sheep, “ whose neck is nearly four feet 
long, and the wool very fine.” Joseph Acosta, a learned 
Jesuit, in his Natural and Moral History of the East and 
West Indies, writes :— 
“ There is nothing in Peru of greater riches and profit than the 
cattell of the country, which our men call Indian sheepe, and the Indians 
