without difficulty, on which he is obliged to feed. The camel seems to have been formed by nature to live on the deserts; he is patient, fleet, stong and hardy; can endure hunger and thirst better than any other animal, can travel through deep and dead sands with great ease, and over the flinty parts of the desert without difficulty, though it is hard for him to go up or down steep hills and mountains, and to travel on muddy roads, as he slips about and strains himself; but he is sure footed, and walks firmly on a hard dry surface, or on sand.

The camel is described by naturalists as having besides the four stomachs common to ruminating animals, a fifth bag, exclusively a reservoir for water where it remains without corrupting or mixing with the other aliments; this is a mistake—for the bag that holds the water contains also the chewed herbage, and is in the camel what a paunch is in an ox. Into this bag all the rough chewed herbage enters, where it is softened by the water, thrown again into the mouth, chewed over, and passed off by another canal, and the forces are so dry, that the day after they are voided, the Arabs strike fire on them instead of touchwood or punk.

The camel’s motions are extremely heavy and jolting; his legs being long, he steps a great distance, and though he appears to go slowly when on a walk, yet he proceeds at about the rate of four miles an hour, and it is difficult for a man to keep pace with him without running. When the camel