trots, he goes very fast; the small trot being about six, and the great ones about eight or nine miles an hour-this they can do with great ease with light loads, for a whole day together, and will replenish their stomachs at night with the leaves and twigs of the sullen thorn bush, that is barely permitted by nature to vegetate in the most dreary and desolate of all regions. The flesh of the camel is good for food: and that of the young ones is esteemed preferable to that of the ox. They bring forth a single young one at a time, and generally once in about two years, their time of gestation being about one year. When the camel is in a heat, he is extremely vicious, so that none dare come near him.

When we sum up the various properties of this useful animal, so indispensable to the comfort, nay, even to the existence of man, in this desolate and barren region, we cannot but admire the providence of the all-wise Creator of the Universe, in the dispensation of his blessings to his creatures. Like the Rein Deer of the frozen regions of the north, the Camel supplies his owner with food and clothing as well as fuel and medicine; almost innumerable are the advantages derived from this most excellent beast—he is indeed the Arab’s best and most tried friend! Without him, the desert would prove an impenetrable barrier to inland communication; and was he less temperate in his diet, both he and his master would sink under the weight of fatigue in this