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Title: Animal products;
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Simmonds, Peter Lund, 1814-1897. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animal products. (from old catalog) Domestic animals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Pub. by Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ly cover a distance of120 miles in a day, and has done 200 in 24 hours without drink-ing or eating. According to the Arab saying, the mehari is to thedjemel or pack dromedary what the noble is to the peasant. Dr. Leared, in his recent work, Morocco and the Moors, saysthat the burden camel, Jimmel, is there the most important ofthe domesticated animals. By its means the products of distantprovinces are interchanged, and commerce is carried on with places,like Timbuctoo, in the heart of Africa. The strength and en-during qualities of the camel alone make such journeys possible.Day after day, from sunrise to sunset, this patient animal willplod through a desert at the rate of about two miles an hour, whilecarrying a load of four hundredweight or even more. To sustainall this patient toil, a small meal of grain, or even of straw, with THE MEHARI, OR RACING CAMEL. 71 water at intervals of days, will suffice. In the north, where thecamel is larger, and food can be procured on a journey, tba
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THE MEHARI, OR RACING CAMEL. animal will carry as much as six hundredweight. The ordinaryprice of one is about ;£io. 72 CAMELS IN ASIA. The fast camel, or Mehari, bears the same relation to theburden camel as our thoroughbred horse does to a cart-horse.The form of the fast camel is more slender and elegant, and hisspecial characteristic lies in his speed. The statements made inrespect to this, as also of his endurance, seem almost fabulous.This breed of camels varies greatly in excellence, and one of first-rate quality is valued at a very large sum of money. Camels have adaptations of structure to the peculiar mode oflife, and to the climate and conditions of existence, in the localitiesin which they are appointed to dwell, the callosities enabling themto kneel or lie down on the burning sand without inconvenience,and the hump containing a supply of nutriment against a time ofscarcity, analogous to the internal provision for storing up waterwhich the camels have in common with the ll

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