. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . 1 JO. OI o Q a Pi H a XI ii¥--^-^*-irjiiii-f I i WILD CAMELS IN EUROPE. 95 writer at the apparition of the long-legged, long-necked,hump-backed pair; but there was no room for mistake,for a camel is like nothing else in creation. The camels appeared to have no great pace, and forsome distance I pursued them, but it was hopeless. Be-tween us lay an arroyo, one of those wide stagnantchannels that in sprmg intersect the dry parts of themarisma in all directions; and before getting clear of this,splashing
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . 1 JO. OI o Q a Pi H a XI ii¥--^-^*-irjiiii-f I i WILD CAMELS IN EUROPE. 95 writer at the apparition of the long-legged, long-necked,hump-backed pair; but there was no room for mistake,for a camel is like nothing else in creation. The camels appeared to have no great pace, and forsome distance I pursued them, but it was hopeless. Be-tween us lay an arroyo, one of those wide stagnantchannels that in sprmg intersect the dry parts of themarisma in all directions; and before getting clear of this,splashing through some hundred yards of mud and water,the bactrians were far away, scudding across a dead-level plain that extended to the horizon. I had heard on my first visit to this wilderness (in1872) of the existence of camels therein, and that the}had lived there wild for forty years or more, but was asincredulous as perhaps some of our present readers maybe, and as some certainly were when I first mentioned thefact in the Ilns, in January, 1884, though then corroboratedby Mr. Howard Saunders, o
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