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Show WILD CAMELS IN AMERICA. A Herd of More Tiian Sixty Roaming the Arizona Iesert. The camels that were broughl to this country before the war, to be used by our army as draft animals in the deserts de-serts of the southwest, are still to be seen or rather their descendants roaming the sands of Arizona, between Yuma and Khrenberg on the north and south and Wicke-uburg and the Colorado river on the eat and west. The herd lias increased to more than sixty, although al-though many of the animals have been takin away by circus men and others have beca killed by prospectors. As "ship0, of tiie desert" they were a failure, fail-ure, the pebbles and rocks of the foothills foot-hills proving too hard on their feet, which became so sore that they were finally turned loose to shift for themselves. them-selves. In those days there were no wdiite men to speak of in the region of the Arizona desert, and the wanderers had nothing to fear from Indians, who superstition-;;,' rave them a wide berth. Xot so the prospectors when they came. Their high spirited little mustangs were so often stampeded at the sight of the long-neekcd and umvieldly beasts that the riders found it convenient to take a shot at them whenever opportunity offered. of-fered. A prospector, writing of his first experience with the expatriated camel, says: "We were coming through a vast expanse of grease w'ced, almost as high as my head, when sutldcnly the burro stopped, raised his head, and gave a snort that couhl have been heard half a mile. I thought it crust have been Indians, In-dians, and, tlirowiag a cartridge into my Winchester, took cover in tne brush. Peering over the top of the wheels I soon saw the camels eommg with their -oeeuliar, swinging trot, showing only 3 ucir heads and humps above the brush. That burro evinced more life than I had ever seen him show before, and I do not think any horse in, the country could have outrun him. Mv pack broke in the first one hxmdred vards. and meat, beans, coffee and tools were scattered for five miles. The camels went on their way, anil it was several years until 1 saw them again, when one of them was captured and brought into - Phoenix, where it finally died." He thinks the government ought to take some steps to protect the camels against malicious injury by trappers and prospectors. |