. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. tlock to the upper joint by a cord. Thehead is never secured, excepting whilst travelling, when the Arabs unite them in single file byfastening the head of one to the tail of his predecessor. Towards evening they are called infor their evening meal, and placed in a kneeling posture round the baggage. They do notbrowse after dark, and seldom attempt to rise, but continue to chew the cud throughout thegreater part of the night. If left to themselves they usually plant their hind-quarters to thewind. The male as well as th
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. tlock to the upper joint by a cord. Thehead is never secured, excepting whilst travelling, when the Arabs unite them in single file byfastening the head of one to the tail of his predecessor. Towards evening they are called infor their evening meal, and placed in a kneeling posture round the baggage. They do notbrowse after dark, and seldom attempt to rise, but continue to chew the cud throughout thegreater part of the night. If left to themselves they usually plant their hind-quarters to thewind. The male as well as the female voids its urine backwards, and, as the ground then a Distinguished for fine make, light colour, and scanty hair. The cut represents this fine variety. Speaking of this species,Burckhardt says:—* The good Nubian hedjeins are so very docile, and have so swift and pleasant an amble, that they supply thewant of horses better than any other camels. Most of them are whitish. In swiftness they surpass any of the various camels Ihav« seen in those parts of the [Dromedary.] Chap. VIII.] ZOOLOGY. ccclxxxix becomes wet and uncomfortable, tbey continue slowly, without changing their recumbentposture, to move themselves forward. Authorities differ with respect to the camels capability of enduring thirst. From the datacollected by Burckhardt, it appears that the power varies much in the different races of thecamel, or rather according to the habits respecting the exercise of this faculty which have beenformed or exacted by the heat or cold, the abundance or paucity of water, and the state ofvegetation in the country in which they have been brought up. Thus the camels of Anatolia,during a summer journey, require water every second day, while the camels of Arabia candispense with it, until the fourth, or even fifth. But then again much depends on the spring, when the herbage is green and succulent it supplies as much moisture as theanimals stomach requires; at that
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